Re: [ubuntu-uk] update failure

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Coulson
2008/10/22 Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2008/10/22 Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Thanks for clearing that up - is there an argument that the update > >> process should be more clever than that, as I'd guess it'

Re: [ubuntu-uk] update failure

2008-10-22 Thread Darren Mansell
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:55:07 +0100, "Sean Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Chris Coulson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Those 404 errors look quite normal for packages that are being updated >> multiple times in rapid succession. What has happened is that your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] update failure

2008-10-22 Thread Sean Miller
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/10/22 Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Thanks for clearing that up - is there an argument that the update >> process should be more clever than that, as I'd guess it'd put off >> "newbies"... ? >> > > There's a compell

Re: [ubuntu-uk] update failure

2008-10-22 Thread Alan Pope
2008/10/22 Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks for clearing that up - is there an argument that the update > process should be more clever than that, as I'd guess it'd put off > "newbies"... ? > There's a compelling argument that "newbies" should _not_ run the development version of Ubuntu.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] update failure

2008-10-22 Thread Sean Miller
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Chris Coulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Those 404 errors look quite normal for packages that are being updated > multiple times in rapid succession. What has happened is that your package > lists were updated, indicating new versions of some packages were availa

Re: [ubuntu-uk] update failure

2008-10-22 Thread Sean Miller
Yes, but 8.04 is just so conservative in comparison... I sort of understand why they do these conservative LTS releases, but I find them stifling... and, to be honest, I've not really had any great issues with 8.10 up to now. In fact, it's been a lot easier than previous alphas and betas that I'v

Re: [ubuntu-uk] update failure

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Coulson
2008/10/22 Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I upgraded to Intrepid several weeks back, sometime late September - > this was just a standard daily update. So now idea why it went wrong > all of a sudden. > > Anyway, I did an apt-get update and then an apt-get dist-upgrade and > it's fine now, it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] update failure

2008-10-22 Thread Michael Holloway
When I did my daily updates on Intrepid today - all went well, did the reboot thing... and then I realised my Skype (medibuntu) had disappeared... like, completely. "apt-get install skype", and it came back. Got no idea why, but it would seem something "broke" the package and apt therefore remove

Re: [ubuntu-uk] update failure

2008-10-22 Thread Sean Miller
I upgraded to Intrepid several weeks back, sometime late September - this was just a standard daily update. So now idea why it went wrong all of a sudden. Anyway, I did an apt-get update and then an apt-get dist-upgrade and it's fine now, it seems. Will keep an eye on that. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@

Re: [ubuntu-uk] update failure

2008-10-22 Thread Rob Beard
Sean Miller wrote: > ps. why would this have happened? I've not done anything (that I know > of) to make it so... > Could it be that a whole load of packages have updated over night in preparation for the release of Intrepid but not finished copying to all the mirrors? Rob -- ubuntu-uk@li

Re: [ubuntu-uk] update failure

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Jones
Hi Sean Miller wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/init.d# apt-get dist-upgrade Not relating to the errors (since other people have addressed those). are you upgrading *to* Intrepid, or just keeping an intrepid machine up to date? If you're upgrading to Intrepid from Hardy, please don't use dist-up

Re: [ubuntu-uk] update failure

2008-10-22 Thread Sean Miller
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace > > Have you tried running > > apt-get update I hadn't noticed that, as the first time I got the issue was on update-manager. Have run it, now wants to download several hundred MBs so might be a while before I can report back, lol... Wil

Re: [ubuntu-uk] update failure

2008-10-22 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Quoting Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dist-Upgrade aborts with the following > > Anybody got any idea what this is about? I'd suggest it's one of two things: 1) Intrepid hasn't reached your mirror yet. 2) You sources are out of date. Have you tried running apt-get update as suggested? I

[ubuntu-uk] update failure

2008-10-21 Thread Sean Miller
Dist-Upgrade aborts with the following Anybody got any idea what this is about? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/init.d# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED xserver