And that goes right back to a previous statement that I made: If you have a working system, you are better off keeping up with the progress toward the next release; ie as soon as a version releases, change your repositories to the NEXT release and do updates as they come. You have to watch what you are doing, some will break things periodically, but as long as you are careful about it, when the release date comes, you are already there.
Bill Ben wrote: > The tzdata error appeared - I continued the upgrade. It went from bad to > worse to horrid. In the end upgrade reported it could not complete. Some > fleeting statement to the effect of a recovery appeared then went away. > For 30 minutes nothing happened. I then restarted --- I would have been > better served opening a window and throwing the whole system out. > > I do not understand why an upgrade must erase user data - applications - > preferences for applications that are not part of Ubuntu's promised > land. All application, data, preference for Thunderbird is non-existent. > Is that supposed to make me happy to use Ubuntu?? I do not think so! > > I have made a diligent effort to use Ubuntu instead of Windows XP on > this system. In a word it has been way too hard, frustrating, and --- > words I just cannot find to state the condition. > > -- error upgrading tzdata_2007e to tzdata_2007f https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116193 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
