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Originally Posted by ondoho
ouch.
from vivid to bionic is a jump across many releases, 2 of them LTS releases.
this cannot work.
Captain Hindsight to the rescue:
- you should have tried to upgrade first to one LTS release, then the next.
- you should have checked your sources manually
- you should have checked both the update & the upgrade manually. never use the '-y' option unless you are 200% sure what you're doing
- you should not use commands copy-pasted from some blog without knowing what they do
so no, Ubuntu did not break your system. You did. |
LOL - Good one - I know how the source update should have worked under optimal circumstances and actually the jump past LTS versions was a purposeful gamble as 16.04 was unable to be installed on the system in the first place while 15.04 ran as a charm.
Hence the jumping of versions in the hope that things were fixed in later versions.
Interestingly enough 16.04 was originally able to run as a live but not able to be installed on the machine, not by me not by any other Linux users I was in contact with, same with Mint and a couple of other distros I tried at the time - All this jazz was clearly related to UEFI settings at the time and how UEFI has a lot to answer for in making Linux more troublesome installation wise on some machines.
As for the y option yes that was a miss on my part I did definitely plan to specify -y and hence was expecting to be asked in case of issues, not an automatic yes. True My bad on that one I jot it down to not putting on the reading glasses at the time.
I am absolutely in agreement that I should if, I would have been able to get the next LTS running on the machine to do that.
I just knew for a fact that a 16.04 would completely break the machine, been there tried that a long time ago.
As a long time LQ user I am a bit disappointed in your behavior and the Captain hindsight remarks etc. it is absolutely not helpful and had I not previously seen such commenting on posts where people are politely asking for help, I might have been dissuaded from posting anything at all here ever again and said F... Linux and the "community".
In the future for the sake of Linux I ask that you refrain from using such language when someone is asking for advice, as it is dismissive of the magnitude of the potential problem and by some may be considered darn rude and absolutely not helpful for the reputation of the Linux community something that the users I have met on LQ otherwise have handled exemplary. Simply pointing out that you had noticed the --y option was set would have been enough on that regard, without the seemingly "gloating" remarks.
