![]() I learned not to keep anything 'valuable' on my hard drive but I did have a working system before this upgrade took 18 hours of hacking and guessing and I ended up with nothing. I have yet to upgrade successfully on 2 different dual-boot macs, this was either my 4th or 5th attempt in various 10.4 - 12.10 Ubuntu/Lubuntu upgrades/configurations. I'd backed up my / partition but there were 17 partitions on my HD after a guided install the old files in / are quite useless with an almost upgraded system. The upgrade failed at about 95% (by progress bar), screen froze, had to be powered off and was unbootable after rescue resetting to boot with /sda11 as my / partition. 12.04 won't be LTS forever, my approach will be to install 12.04 LTS on the machine I want to have stable and expect to start from scratch when I want a newer kernel. I had disabled xscreensaver after getting the warnings during upgrade to no avail. I have no way of knowing whether this bug was my downfall, xlockmore was not a conscious choice I made to install: in my screensaver preferences I had set my desktop never to lock, I'm assuming the option to lock after screensaver start is what xlockmore is. I can't help but think ppc architecture is currently un-upgradable. ![]() I have yet to upgrade successfully on 2 different dual-boot macs, this was either my 4th or 5th attempt in various 10.4 - 12.10 Ubuntu/Lubuntu upgrades/ configurations. After a full day of upgrading I may be locked out anyway? Bug is a good word for this upgrade experience and I have no idea whether disabling xscreensaver satisfies the either/or restart or stop instructions so why bother googling to find out what xlockmore has to do with anything. In the middle of an upgrade can I delete them? How would I find them? The upgrade has already taken over 15 hours ( I made the mistake of doing something else after 8 hours at it, thinking it was finally going to upgrade, no it just stopped and waited for my full attention so I could answer some stupid question like do I want lxdm default which later is deleted anyway). 4 hours later I'm told that xscreensaver and xlockmore may lock users out if I don't "arrange for these programs to be restarted or stopped before continuing this upgrade"? Neither can be started or stopped in a terminal. ![]() "8 hours remaining' the progress bar estimated once the upgrade had 'downloaded' the info from the iso. ![]() By then I'd copied the iso to a new directory as outlined in a Upgrading wiki so the it could emulate an alternate CD. I managed to start the process by saying "no" to updating while upgrading: the most important step since the install will 100% for sure fail due to the absence of sources. Update Manager didn't have the Software Sources, downloading the 12.04 iso and burning it to a CD half a day ago didn't work I learned later because I chose update while upgrading but there are no sources for 12.04 ppc in the cdimages multiversii or anywhere else on this planet. Trying to update a ppc ubuntu install is nearly impossible.
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