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.