On Saturday, September 24, 2011 06:34:15 AM Christopher Chan wrote:
Ah...you're supposed to use do-release-upgrade and not 'apt dist-upgrade'
If that is what is called by the gui distribution upgrade button, it has done similar things to a few installs I have had to repair.
Ubuntu ain't Debian. It's something worse and requires uber hacks to get around crap. Them uber hacks are loaded in do-release-upgrade.
Been there, broke that.
Pound Ubuntu properly pal. Giving examples of unsupported processes ain't pounding it properly.
TMTOWTDI.
If it's not supported it shouldn't be enabled and easily (ab)used. This is part of the reason you have to add a boot argument to get CentOS to do a version upgrade; it's known to not work properly, and thus is semi-hidden.