Comment 27 for bug 116193

And that goes right back to a previous statement that I made: If you
have a working system, you are better off keeping up with the progress
toward the next release; ie as soon as a version releases, change your
repositories to the NEXT release and do updates as they come. You have
to watch what you are doing, some will break things periodically, but as
long as you are careful about it, when the release date comes, you are
already there.

Bill

Ben wrote:
> The tzdata error appeared - I continued the upgrade. It went from bad to
> worse to horrid. In the end upgrade reported it could not complete. Some
> fleeting statement to the effect of a recovery appeared then went away.
> For 30 minutes nothing happened. I then restarted --- I would have been
> better served opening a window and throwing the whole system out.
>
> I do not understand why an upgrade must erase user data - applications -
> preferences for applications that are not part of Ubuntu's promised
> land. All application, data, preference for Thunderbird is non-existent.
> Is that supposed to make me happy to use Ubuntu?? I do not think so!
>
> I have made a diligent effort to use Ubuntu instead of Windows XP on
> this system. In a word it has been way too hard, frustrating, and ---
> words I just cannot find to state the condition.
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