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Re: Release upgrade problems

From TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Release upgrade problems
Date 2023-03-25 18:57 -0400
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On 2023-03-25 17:01, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 25/03/2023 19:23, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>> On Sat, 25 Mar 2023 17:16:25 +0100, Marco Moock wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 25.03.2023 um 15:36:14 Uhr schrieb db:
>>>
>>>> This seems like a dangerous thing to do. Is it safe? I do see
>>>> a lot of instances of "bionic" in etc/apt/sources.list
>>>
>>> That is a normal way to do it - the default for Debian.
>>> I did it many times - without any problems.
>>
>> I ran into problems twice. After the upgrade it hung in the display
>> manager login screen without being able to choose to log in. Only the
>> mouse pointer was moving. IIRC it also wouldn't let me login from a TTY.
>>
>> Anyway, I still see this as an option. Because otherwise you have an
>> outdated installation (accumulating bugs over time). If lucky, the
>> upgrade works. If not, install something fresh.
> Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't
> 
> I tried to incrementally upgrade from Mint17 to Mint 20 in 'easy stages' 
> but halfway along something broke, and I ended up with a clean install 
> and spending the time recreating  the environment instead
> 
Upgrade problems are more likely if you use the Plasma DE, IMO. The 
Friendly Folks at KDE have a habit of re-arranging where settings are 
found and changing defaults to what *they* think you *ought* to want, 
instead of letting you keep your own decisions.

TJ

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Release upgrade problems db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2023-03-22 15:15 +0100
  Re: Release upgrade problems The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-22 15:07 +0000
  Re: Release upgrade problems Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2023-03-22 15:34 +0000
  Re: Release upgrade problems Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2023-03-22 17:51 +0000
    Re: Release upgrade problems Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> - 2023-03-22 19:27 +0100
      Re: Release upgrade problems Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2023-03-23 08:28 +0000
  Re: Release upgrade problems Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2023-03-22 19:15 +0100
    Re: Release upgrade problems Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2023-03-25 18:28 +0100
  Re: Release upgrade problems Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> - 2023-03-22 19:27 +0100
    Re: Release upgrade problems db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2023-03-25 15:36 +0100
      Re: Release upgrade problems Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> - 2023-03-25 17:16 +0100
        Re: Release upgrade problems Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-03-25 15:23 -0400
          Re: Release upgrade problems The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-25 21:01 +0000
            Re: Release upgrade problems TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2023-03-25 18:57 -0400
  Re: Release upgrade problems Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2023-03-23 15:20 +0200
  Re: Release upgrade problems Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2023-03-26 20:07 +0300

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