Upgraded to 8.04 from 7.10

tredegar · 04-29-2008, 02:27 PM

@DennisO,

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Simon, your claim to be a guru baffles me. Do you need me to hold your hand ...

There's no need to vent your anger towards other LQ contributors. Simon Bridge is a "guru" because of the number of posts he has made - like you are "LQ Newbie" and I am "Senior Member" - it means nothing but number of posts. We are mostly all trying our best here.

If you take a brief look at the ubuntu forums you will see that many people are very unhappy with their "upgrade" to 8.04. A lot of things seem to be broken in bizarre ways if you choose this route. The answer seems to be to save your personal files, and then do a "Fresh install" of 8.04

Try it.

Me? I'm sticking with 6.06LTS - for stablility (and it is good for another couple of years): I need functionality over eye-candy

DennisO · 04-29-2008, 03:51 PM

I didn't vent, but retorted to his sarcasm. Aside from that, I've fixed my problem. I did opt for eye candy when I went for Ubuntu and dropped gentoo, but fixed my problem by reinstalling gentoo. Functionality wins out everytime.

Simon, my apologies.

Takla · 04-29-2008, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by DennisO

Takla:

I've tried changing the localhost info, but still can't save it. Regardless what I try, it refuses me access or edit. But accepting upgrades asks me for root password, and it accepts it. This is really starting to baffle me. I have root access if I do the upgrades via Upgrade Manager, but none any other way.

You can boot your PC, hit esc as prompted before grub comes up, choose to boot into recovery mode and then you should be in with root privileges and be able to edit the hosts file. Alternatively use something like parted magic 2.0 live CD which makes accessing and reading and writing to your hard drives very easy as it includes a file manager (Thunar), text editor and also Firefox so you can seek help/information online without rebooting yet again.