Recently I found out I wanted the latest and greatest in some amateur radio
software used on the desktop system thompson at home. So I upgraded ubuntu
again. This system has run Ubuntu versions 8.04, 10.04 and 12.04, so it does
show all those upgrades work!
The system crashed during
do-release-upgrade which left it in a
non-starting state as
mountall failed and the boot stopped.
Mounting filesystems by hand worked and after that I could restart the
upgrades. I soon found out that although it looked like it already ran
Ubuntu 14.04 almost all packages still had their 12.04 version numbers.
When the
apt-get dist-upgrade was running again I saw it unpack
lots of packages ending at a top of over 1600 unconfigured packages. That
slowly reverted to zero (with some questions) and gave me a stable booting
system again.
Upgrading
Gqrx software defined radio was
a bit more of a hassle as I tried
Gqrx snapshots before which left some conflicts in
the packages. The solution was to remove all parts of gnuradio/gqrx, clean up
and start over with
Gqrx releases
so I now have Gqrx 2.3.2 with lots of new options.
The problem seems to come from the fact that there are two gqrx packages at
the moment:
Installing
gqrx-sdr when the qgrx repository is available confuses
things.