Re: [LUG] Upgrading Mint 16 to 17

[Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/06/14 13:33, Julian Hall wrote:
> On 02/06/14 23:32, bad apple wrote:
> > On 02/06/14 23:19, Julian Hall wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I upgraded Mint 15 to 16 using apt-get following bad apple's excellent
> > > tutorial, and now I'd like to do the same from 16-17.  I found a how-to
> > > online which basically says to edit the sources and replace petra with
> > > qiana and saucy with trusty.
> > >
> > > Am I correct in thinking these lines (taken from bad apple's tutorial
> > > and modified as I /think/ the online How-to means) do exactly that?
> > >
> > > 2: Edit apt sources
> > >
> > > cd /etc/apt
> > > sed -i 's/petra/qiana/g' sources.list
> > > sed -i 's/saucy/trusty/g' sources.list
> > >
> > > 3: If you have extra repos here (PPAs, etc) also edit them
> > >
> > > ls sources.list.d/
> > > sed -i 's/petra/qiana/g' sources.list.d/*.list
> > > sed -i 's/saucy/trusty/g' sources.list.d/*.list
> > >
> > > If I am right I'll just use bad apple's tutorial again with these
> > > modified lines.
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > >
> > > Julian
> >
> > That's exactly right chief - just change the release names as
> > appropriate in sources.list and anything under sources.list.d/ also: I
> > think Mint has references to it's parent Ubuntu distro in there as well,
> > so you'd probably also want to check for any instances of saucy that
> > need to be changed to trusty.
> >
> > I guess that must mean Mint 17 has just been released then, I didn't
> > realise.
> >
> > Regards
> Hi bad apple,
>
> Yes it was released a couple of days ago.  I have just completed 
> update on my laptop, and all /seemed/ to be going well.  However on 
> reboot I have a strange problem.  I can login using my normal 
> password, however the system will no longer accept my su password. I 
> have not changed it, so I am at a loss to understand what has happened.
>
> Any suggestions gratefully received.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Julian
That was badly worded.. what I mean is I can login to the system, but 
anything that requires elevated privileges asks for the password - su - 
or sudo in a terminal for example - then rejects my password, although I 
know it is correct.

Julian

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