[01:47] <CIA-16> ubiquity: themuso * r5090 trunk/debian/ (changelog control):
[01:47] <CIA-16> ubiquity: debian/control: We are using GI for the a11y indicator, so depend on
[01:47] <CIA-16> ubiquity: gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 instead of python-appindicator
[09:32] <Pobbel> Hi all, is this the best place for assistance with a broken install, or would ubuntu-beginners be more suitable?
[15:35] <bdmurray> ev, cjwatson: How could I recover the system in bug 891711?
[15:35] <ubot2> Launchpad bug 891711 in ubiquity ""Upgrade" from 11.10 to 11.04 results in a unusable system" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/891711
[15:38] <cjwatson> I think it would probably be necessary to repeat the "upgrade" again but patch around that problem
[15:38] <cjwatson> (e.g. by putting 'try:' / 'except OSError: pass' around it
[15:38] <cjwatson> )
[15:41] <bdmurray> That'd be the easiest?  I'm trying to provide a way for people to get their systems usable again.
[15:43] <cjwatson> I know, but it's pretty hard to fix 11.04 now!
[15:43] <cjwatson> the installer broke fairly early as these things go; there'd be a very significant number of manual steps required
[15:43] <cjwatson> I'm not sure I'd get them all right
[15:44] <cjwatson> the only idea I have is SRUing ubiquity so that they could upgrade it first
[15:45] <bdmurray> Okay, I'll test the try except idea then
[15:45]  * ogra_ finds it odd that we actually call it an upgrade
[15:46] <bdmurray> yes, that should be fixed in precise
[15:46] <cjwatson> ogra_: again, hard to fix 11.04
[15:46] <ogra_> yeah :)
[15:47] <cjwatson> I don't think anyone thought of this scenario at the time
[15:47] <ogra_> i thought it was done this way on purpose ... i.e. design team saying to not confuse users with the downgrade term or some such
[15:47] <cjwatson> I doubt it
[15:47] <ogra_> good to hear it isnt :)
[15:47] <cjwatson> the specific problem here is probably failure to replace symlink with directory
[15:49] <cjwatson> I guess http://paste.ubuntu.com/742358/ would be neater (that's against precise)
[16:41] <superm1> cjwatson: without regard to the CD boot menu stuff, do you anticipate resyncing to trunk for grub2 in debian and ubuntu for precise?
[16:42] <cjwatson> I'm not sure
[16:42] <cjwatson> there've been quite a lot of big complex changes and I'm thinking it might be better to cherry-pick
[16:42] <cjwatson> unless upstream releases 2.0
[16:44] <superm1> okay.  i'm only asking because I have some stuff applies patches on top of grub2 source package in order to cross-compile to mingw32 that i'd just like to plan out
[16:44] <cjwatson> if they're upstream I expect I'd be willing to take such patches in Debian on a temporary basis
[16:45] <superm1> a few of them are
[16:45] <superm1> i'll sort out what's not in debian but is upstream to cherry pick then
[17:19] <bdmurray> cjwatson: the patch seems to have worked
[17:45] <bdmurray> cjwatson: there is still a kernel from 11.10 installed and grub defaults to that though.  Do you have a recommendation on how to remove it?
[17:50] <cjwatson> just remove its package
[17:51] <bdmurray> I don't think its recorded as being installled
[17:52] <cjwatson> oh, huh.  I guess not.  in that case remove the files from /boot and /lib/modules ...
[17:52] <cjwatson> see also: use case not envisioned :-)
[17:52] <bdmurray> yeah
[22:19] <CIA-16> ubiquity: cjwatson * r5091 trunk/debian/ (changelog rules):
[22:19] <CIA-16> ubiquity: Remove /usr/lib/libubiwebcam.la. Nothing uses this, and its
[22:19] <CIA-16> ubiquity: dependency_libs entries don't match current reality.