Synaptic Upgrade doesn't work... RE-SOLVED

[Neal ManBear]

I've never copied as anything but user, that I remember. If files don't transfer 'in total,' try copying individual files.

[Dulwithe]

I've never copied as anything but user, that I remember. If files don't transfer 'in total,' try copying individual files.

I'll give it a shot on my home-office machine once I get a chance and report back.

[Neal ManBear]

I've never copied as anything but user, that I remember. If files don't transfer 'in total,' try copying individual files.

I'll give it a shot on my home-office machine once I get a chance and report back.

Try drag 'n drop or copy 'n paste. Works here.

[Dulwithe]

Okay, so here is the good news.

I did the updates bit by bit...  Ie: manually clicked anywhere from 50 to 100 packages and installed them bit by bit.  Then, the last 399 packages, I installed them all in a bundle.  And I got everything working a-ok.

I wondered if it was because I was running out of disk space on the partition.  But I couldn't even check that at the time because dolphin wasn't working.

At any rate, I seem to be happily updated now.  I'll keep my eye on updates in the next few weeks and report back if there are any problems.

Thanks for everyone's suggestions and advice.

D.

[Neal ManBear]

Checking disk space is easy. Open the terminal and enter df. This will tell you the size of each partition, how much used and how much free space.

[pinoc]

for those with copy/paste problems, you can now follow Option 2 here
-p.

[Dulwithe]

Checking disk space is easy. Open the terminal and enter df. This will tell you the size of each partition, how much used and how much free space.

Thanks for that, Neal.  I figured there was an easy way, just didn't know it myself.  ;-)

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              25G   22G  1.7G  93% /
tmpfs                 1.4G     0  1.4G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2             435G   21G  392G   5% /media/bbf


I figure the 93% used is likely the reason I was having issues.

D.

[Neal ManBear]

93% Whew! Don't try updating again until you have a bigger /. Or uninstall some things. 22GB used is pretty big.

[pags]

93% Whew! Don't try updating again until you have a bigger /. Or uninstall some things. 22GB used is pretty big.

Well...there's no separate /home, so I would venture a guess that that may have some content 

Anyway, yes...free up some space (have any external storage available?).

[Dulwithe]

93% Whew! Don't try updating again until you have a bigger /. Or uninstall some things. 22GB used is pretty big.

Anyway, yes...free up some space (have any external storage available?).

Only close to a terabyte...  ;-)

I wasn't supposed to store anything in this install's /home, was gonna store all files in my external storage, but somehow...  Well, y'know...

[pags]

93% Whew! Don't try updating again until you have a bigger /. Or uninstall some things. 22GB used is pretty big.

Anyway, yes...free up some space (have any external storage available?).

Only close to a terabyte...  ;-)

I wasn't supposed to store anything in this install's /home, was gonna store all files in my external storage, but somehow...  Well, y'know...