{"id":631,"date":"2006-03-31T15:56:51","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T05:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/31\/crash-halfway-through-upgrading-ubuntu-breezy-to-dapper\/"},"modified":"2010-05-27T17:13:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T07:13:13","slug":"crash-halfway-through-upgrading-ubuntu-breezy-to-dapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/31\/crash-halfway-through-upgrading-ubuntu-breezy-to-dapper\/","title":{"rendered":"crash halfway through upgrading Ubuntu breezy to dapper"},"content":{"rendered":"

see BUG#37430<\/a> for some details. Also see BUG#37435<\/a> for why it gets really painful later on.
\nBasically, if your machine crashes around the time of the dist-upgrade, you’re totally screwed. mkfs and re-install.<\/p>\n

I’d hate to have not made \/home a different partition from \/.<\/p>\n

I currently don’t have much confidence in an easy upgrade for my laptop considering what I’ve just gone through for my desktop. I’m now downloading the flight 5 install CD so i can re-install from stractch. urgh. not happy jan.<\/p>\n

My recommendation for upgrade is a full backup of everything beforehand and if anything even remotely goes wrong, restore the backup.<\/p>\n

Naturally I didn’t do this for the desktop. but hey, the laptop is more critical. I’ll be doing it for that, as I always do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

see BUG#37430 for some details. Also see BUG#37435 for why it gets really painful later on. Basically, if your machine crashes around the time of the dist-upgrade, you’re totally screwed. mkfs and re-install. I’d hate to have not made \/home … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grumble","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-ab","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3365,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/05\/switching-to-fedora-from-ubuntu\/","url_meta":{"origin":631,"position":0},"title":"Switching to Fedora from Ubuntu","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2013-07-05","format":false,"excerpt":"I've run Ubuntu on my desktop (well... and laptop) since roughly the first release back in 2004. 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