Re: Octave 3.2.2 for Ubuntu9.04?

[Uwe Dippel]

John Swensen wrote:
> You can upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 by either downloading the ISO and  
> reinstalling completely, or upgrading using the update manager by  
> doing the following (found on an Ubuntu mailing list http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1185036 
>   and I have used 2 time with no problems):
>
> 1) Open a terminal
> 2) Run update-manager -d
> 3) Click the button that offers an upgrade.
>
> Hope this helps you get a recent version of Octave up and running more  
> quickly.
>   

Don't. Ever.
I'm lucky I didn't do that in the first place, now I *tried* on a 
machine on the side, not my 'production' desktop.

> I upgraded from a working and freshly updated 9.04 (apt-get update && 
> apt-get upgrade) to Alpha 6, with
> update-manager -d
> after it had worked well on my netbook.
> Despite of the upgrade going through without a hitch, after reboot 
> everything is damaged, it seems. I get UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCIES just 
> flashing by, in circles. And this with the old as well as the new 
> kernel, including recovery mode. I can stop the going round in circles 
> with Ctrl-Alt-Del, which will gracefully shut down the machine.

There are lots of people with a similar problem, usually it wouldn't go 
in circles, but still, not boot at all.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/433829
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/427822
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clock-setup/+bug/423247

Uwe