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2009/1/9 Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I've just tried to upgrade to 8.04LTS and its gone pear shaped*. > I now have a package gsfonts that I cant remove or reinstall and any dpkg > command says it cant do anything because that package is so badly corrupted - > any ideas how to get rid of it/replace it? > What release was it running previously? How did you start the upgrade? Can you paste exactly what the error is when you:- sudo apt-get remove --purge gsfonts sudo apt-get install --reinstall gsfonts > * my last three upgrades have all gone pear shaped on the ubuntu family - > anyone else have this problem? Not I. I have upgraded many machines and rarely get issues. >> > 2a) should I make a swap sector? >> >> Any reason why you wouldn't? > I was wondering why they didnt set one up at the start! Mine has one. I believe the original ones had a 40G drives, so had a 1G swap part (hda5) and the rest was root fs (hda1). Later they moved to 80G drives but for some reason left / as 40G and the rest of the space was mounted as /scratch. On mine I removed the scratch partition and dynamically resized the root partition up so now mine looks like this:- Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 9605 77152131 83 Linux /dev/sda2 9606 9729 996030 5 Extended /dev/sda5 9606 9729 995998+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris You might want to check the fstab to see if there really is a swap part defined. It could be that the fstab mentions /dev/hda5, but the kernel now uses /dev/sda5? Cheers, Al. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html