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update-manager package

  1. Bug #107188
  2. Comment #80

Comment 80 for bug 107188

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Loye Young (loyeyoung) wrote : Re: [Bug 107188] Re: [MASTER] [kde] Upgrade tool crashed with " Cannot allocate memory" (edgy -> feisty)

What happens if you use "aptitude --full-upgrade" instead of "apt-get
--dist-upgrade" in the script?

On 10/25/07, BigPick <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Many thanks for the help you guys.
>
> I would also like to thank John and Christian Assig for their efforts so
> far.
>
> FerranRius's comment is very prudent and correct however, this upgrade
> should not be attempted whatsoever by anyone who uses their machine for
> work, school, or other important operations. The patch I posted is
> simply the fix I came up with for my situation when I attempted to
> upgrade Feisty on the laptop I use around campus. I never thought I'd be
> thankful for dual-booting windows, and to be honest, I resent the need
> to rely on it. Luckily, I have two old towers I use as sandboxes for
> messing around with networking and various Unix installations. One is an
> Intel/nVidia, the other is AMD/ATI, both failed the upgrade and became
> unbootable (so I'm 0 for 3), making them perfect candidates for trying
> to fix this.
>
> Currently there are two memory leaks occurring as far as I can tell,
> only one of which I have identified and addressed in the patch. The
> second appears to be coming from the fetching of backport archives,
> which occurs prior to the main upgrade. I am unable to replicate this
> leak on my machines, so I have relied on the work of Christian Assig to
> track this down. He deserves many thanks for bearing with my sophomoric
> efforts. Although this patch does not fix the second leak, Christian did
> report dist-upgrade faied gracefully instead of crashing by bringing up
> an error window and attempting to recover and reset the system.
>
> I need to repeat that I am not an official developer. I am a user with
> just enough information to make me dangerous. Nonetheless, I greatly
> appreciate your efforts to assist me in solving this critical issue.
>
> --
> [MASTER] [kde] Upgrade tool crashed with " Cannot allocate memory" (edgy
> -> feisty)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107188
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