MBMz10
Tue Sep 12, 2017 5:06:14 am
As the title states (Partial Upgrade Ruins 12.1 Lite). Seeing that 12.2 was out I attempted to update to this new version by running the software updater as stated here http://zoringroup.com/blog/2017/09/08/z ... em-ever-2/ and ended up with a broken system.
Not sure what happened as I ran the updater and something about not all software was installed try partial upgrade popped up so I just went with that as it sounds about right, not really paying full attention but sort of thought it was a little unusual and as it was just the 'shed pc' not very concerned so just click next etc.
As soon as the login screen appeared after the update restart I knew something was wrong, all the Zorin stuff was missing and think I ended up with a basic xfce desktop. It all worked OK just no Zorin theming etc.
I am posting this for feedback and thoughts and as a warning if you get the partial upgrade box, on what may have happened as usually this only happens when doing the 'wrong' update from the terminal in my experience. I was not in the habit of manually running the updater very often as I was sort of 'testing it' as it didn't seem to pop up very often and I wondered if it was even working (see earlier posts about this).
I had removed some multiple entries from "Other Software" some time ago (see posts elsewhere) so I restored a full system image I created back around July and ran the updater on it but it worked just fine and updated to 12.2 OK. Not aware of any GUI way of finding your version on Zorin Lite so I ran this: cat /etc/issue in terminal and it showed Zorin 12.2
I have now done a clean install of 12.2 Lite. I was going to post this in the chat about section but thought it might be of more benefit here.
Any ideas?
Not sure what happened as I ran the updater and something about not all software was installed try partial upgrade popped up so I just went with that as it sounds about right, not really paying full attention but sort of thought it was a little unusual and as it was just the 'shed pc' not very concerned so just click next etc.
As soon as the login screen appeared after the update restart I knew something was wrong, all the Zorin stuff was missing and think I ended up with a basic xfce desktop. It all worked OK just no Zorin theming etc.
I am posting this for feedback and thoughts and as a warning if you get the partial upgrade box, on what may have happened as usually this only happens when doing the 'wrong' update from the terminal in my experience. I was not in the habit of manually running the updater very often as I was sort of 'testing it' as it didn't seem to pop up very often and I wondered if it was even working (see earlier posts about this).
I had removed some multiple entries from "Other Software" some time ago (see posts elsewhere) so I restored a full system image I created back around July and ran the updater on it but it worked just fine and updated to 12.2 OK. Not aware of any GUI way of finding your version on Zorin Lite so I ran this: cat /etc/issue in terminal and it showed Zorin 12.2
I have now done a clean install of 12.2 Lite. I was going to post this in the chat about section but thought it might be of more benefit here.
Any ideas?
And while it was doing a general update I got a Gnome shell crash warning - noticed a flicker in Firefox whilst it was updating (included update to Flash) so it could have been that as normally, Flash updates and the like that normally run in browsers, need them to be closed. Just a guess!