acrons saved my butt.. my lt is back to 9.4... Now I can update what I am missing and work on the other drive and see if i can get it working

my next step:

I have cloned my system to another disk after recovering from a backup.
I will patch to the latest 9.04 code
I will turn off some of the start up programs I think are suspect (compiz,desktop drapes)
I will try the 9.10 migration again on said cloned disk

If update fails I will reclone and start over.

I have to say unix1adm, you're one tough pitbull and I mean that in a good way, don't get me wrong.

Just keep us in the loop of your progress please.

Kind regards,

Eric

Ok so I am attempting the clone now and this is is what I got
Not supported packages any more..

Support for some applications ended

Canonical Ltd. no longer provides support for the following software packages. You can still get support from the community.

If you have not enabled community maintained software (universe), these packages will be suggested for removal at the end of the upgrade.
acl
binutils-static
bluez-gnome
contact-lookup-applet
cpp-4.3
cupsddk
g++-4.3
gcc-4.3
gcc-4.3-base
gnome-mount
gnome-user-guide-en
gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs
human-icon-theme
indi
klogd
libglew1.5
libgnome-speech7
libgnomevfs2-bin
libmono-data1.0-cil
libmono-data2.0-cil
libmono-getoptions1.0-cil
libmono-posix1.0-cil
libmysqlclient15off
libpolkit-gnome0
libsmbios2
libstdc++6-4.3-dev
nvidia-180-modaliases
phonon
phonon-backend-gstreamer
pidgin-otr
policykit-gnome
python-gdata
python-launchpad-bugs
python-usb
qt4-qtconfig
rss-glx
sysklogd
tangerine-icon-theme
ttf-kochi-gothic
ttf-sazanami-gothic
ubuntu-gdm-themes

So the question comes in do I remove these packages before upgrading the OS.

To Erictra... ya I a bit stubborn and pig headed and Ill work a problem till i fix it. I always have a hammer if needed. LOL

Not sure what this is talking about. How and should I do this?

If you have not enabled community maintained software (universe), these packages will be suggested for removal at the end of the upgrade.

Ok found this under admin

I enabled the resources and trying the update now.. Wish me luck. If not back to restore point and remove all those packages and try again.

It wants to remove 30 packages.

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well here we go again.. Ill try the reboot but dont expect much success.

Could not install the upgrades

The upgrade is now aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state. A recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a).

ok back at the xsession error.

I think I will rebuild and remove virtualbox-ose-source and try again.

Did you do apt-get update after you enabled the resources?

no i did not. Did not know i was suppose to do that. Thanx...

Hey unix1adm,

On Debian based distros like Ubuntu, before doing apt-get upgrade you ALWAYS have to do apt-get update first. That command namely synchronizes with the repositories.

Kind regards,

Eric

ok i did the update using the package manager but that was before i added the repos. Well restore is done... off for another try

so this time I added the repos, removed the virtual box software and updated the OS to latest levels.

Let the fun begin

if this does not work then next try i remove all 30 packages it does not support.

to be honest I dont have clue what some of them are.

ok make up your mind already.. First it tells me to enable the repos then it disables them

Third party sources disabled

Some third party entries in your sources.list were disabled. You can re-enable them after the upgrade with the 'software-properties' tool or your package manager.

install did not come back with any errors this time but I am back to the xsession problem. arg... restore yet again

Well I did not do another update last night. Figured Id sleep on it.
The update never failed and for my secondary user ID id seems to work fine. So there must be something configured in the primary user I use xsession that is causing this.

At least I did not get any errors.

In th eend it said there were 79 files that were to be removed and I let it. Did nto seem to have any ill affects on the build.

May be next time Ill tell it to keep the files.?
But I still think its an xsession program.
May be I should remove that list of files I posted earlier before trying the update.


Oh well Happy turkey day people..