[Novalug] Please Help: Ubuntu Graphical Login Fails

[Bonnie Dalzell]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Keith Bennett wrote:

KB >Bonnie -
KB >
KB >Forgive my ignorance -- would upgrading to 6.10 be significantly
KB >different from doing apt-get upgrades to 6.06?  And would it overwrite
KB >anything important?

It did not over right anything on my system.

I did aptitude dist-upgrade

aptitude is the newer version of apt get and does some additional checking
to avoid conflicts. 

KB >
KB >Thanks,
KB >Keith
KB >
KB >On 1/12/07, Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell at qis.net> wrote:
KB >> Have you tried taking a live CD and booting from it?
KB >>
KB >> Is there a reason not to upgrade to 6.10.
KB >>
KB >> I accidently installed 6.06 on my new to me elderly used laptop and then
KB >> it was easy to do a distribution update so now I have 6.10 on it. I did
KB >> not know about the break to x that happened in 6.06
KB >>
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                       Bonnie Dalzell, MA 
mail:5100 Hydes Rd ---- Hydes MD USA 21082-----EMAIL:bdalzell at qis.net
 
freelance anatomist, vertebrate paleontologist, writer, illustrator, dog
breeder, computer nerd & iconoclast... Borzoi info at www.borzois.com.
 
Editor Net.Pet Online Animal Magazine  - http://www.netpetmagazine.com
HOME http://www.qis.net/~borzoi/          BUSINESS http://www.batw.com