Comment 81 for bug 107188

i have managed to make the update after all with several apt-get
upgrade commands so i cannot provide this information anymore, sorry
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On 10/25/07, Loye Young <email address hidden> wrote:
> 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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> > of a duplicate bug.
> >
>
>
> --
> Loye Young
> Isaac & Young Computer Company
> Laredo, Texas
> (956) 857-1172
> <email address hidden>
>
> --
> [MASTER] [kde] Upgrade tool crashed with " Cannot allocate memory" (edgy -> feisty)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107188
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
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