[Linux-disciples] Dist-upgrade troubles

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

I would generally opt to apt-get upgrade, rather than apt-get
dist-upgrade. The dist-upgrade has the potential to be destructive (as
you describe).

I haven't tracked Ubuntu at all, so I don't know specifically what's
going on with you, but I would suggest going into console mode, run
apt-get -f install, and then you should be able to install gnome stuff
afterward.

Alternatively, try apt-get install gnome, see what that does.

You might check to see if the problem is widespread, since Ubuntu did
just release...

On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 01:17:34PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> I just dist-upgraded my Ubuntu installation from Warty
> Warthog to Hoary Hedgehog, and now I'm experiencing all
> kinds of GNOME problems. Everything else seems to have
> installed fine, but GNOME had some troubles. Now when gdm
> launches and I'm logged in,
> 
> 1) the desktop displays nothing -- no toolbars, menus, etc.;
> 
> 2) the gnome-terminal window (from which I'm typing this) is
> stuck in the upper-left-hand corner, is unresizeable, and
> doesn't display the title bar;
> 
> 3) the mouse has suddenly adopted the classical X behavior:
> it focuses on whatever the mouse hovers over. This is
> different than the behavior I had before;
> 
> 4) my shortcut keys don't work.
> 
> Additionally, apt-show-versions reports for each of my
> installed apps that there is 'no available version in
> archive'. So that's ... um ... bad.
> 
> If I do an apt-get -f install, apt tells me that it would
> basically have to remove every GNOME app. I think there's
> some conflict between GNOME and Python, but I'm not sure.
> 
> Do I misunderstand something about the process? I thought
> the whole point of dist-upgrade was that it would
> intelligently resolve conflicts. It appears not to have done
> so here.
> 
> So how do I dig myself out of this hole? I'd uninstall and
> reinstall all my GNOME apps, but the 'no available version'
> errors suggests to me that I have other, possibly deeper
> (and possibly easier-to-resolve?) problems.
> 
> Any advice?
> 

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