Live Masonry
October 22nd, 2007 by Mark
We had another live airing of the Free Software Round Table last Saturday night. One of the big news items in the Linux world was that Ubuntu had released the 7.10 version of their distribution, which is code named Gutsy Gibbon. I had been running the previous version of Ubuntu on my laptop and decided that it would be kind of fun to upgrade to the next version while we were on the air. So, the first thing we did at the beginning of the show was talk about Gutsy and then I started upgrading. It had to download 1.1GB of updates (which took about an hour) and then it started installing the updates (which would have taken about 2 hours). However, after 1 hour of upgrading we were about to finish the show and head home. So, I restarted my machine right in the middle of the update. It rebooted, but a slew of things were broken. It’s a little embarrassing to be live on a Linux radio show while you ‘brick‘ your Linux laptop. However, last night I was able to run ‘dpkg –configure -a’ to finish installing the packages that it had half installed, and then run ‘aptitude dist-upgrade’ to finish the rest of the installation. The system is now up and running just fine. Besides the bricking incident the radio show went really well. I don’t think we’ll be doing another 2 hour show anytime soon, but the hour that we actually had content prepared for went really well.
