Hi, Apologies for the delayed response. wrestling with windows 7 on another box.
Yes, what newcomers and I suggest most regular users want is certainty. If the system can upgrade fully do it . If it can't then don't attempt or offer a partial upgrade. Unless you are a Linux expert and most of us are not it is just taking people into an area of problems they cannot resolve for themselves. What the system needs to do if it cannot perform the full upgrade is to tell you why it cannot. List and direct you to the missing packages it needs to be able to perform the full upgrade. What threw me was that update manager was saying nothing was outstanding. That may have been correct in respect of the packages it had correctly installed and subsequently updated but it was not telling me at that point, that certain key packages may have failed to install properly and therefore were not showing as needing an update. It was able to tell me this( without listing the missing packages) when of course it was to late and I was stuck in the middle of a hotchpoch of a partial upgrade I could not then put right. Hope these comments are useful regards Peter On 06/07/2011 02:56, RedSingularity wrote: > Thanks for reporting this. Just to confirm, are you saying it would be best > to remove the 'partial upgrade' option from update-manager? > --- > Ubuntu Bug Squad volunteer triager > http://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad > > ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/802991 Title: failure to upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/802991/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
