[mythtv-users] upgrade

[Mark Perkins]

> My experience with update manager is just the opposite, except where mythtv is concerned. Several distros of Ubuntu on at least seven PC's have gone flawlessly. 
> If I try it with TTY and encounter similar errors/warnings, is there a way to save them, say to a flash drive or somewhere? With recent attempts I could not get back into the unsuccessfully upgraded OS to review any details or logs etc.
> I guess a pen and paper would work, so tedious though. Suggestions?   Daryl
> >
> _______________________________________________

IIRC you can't copy / paste between the TTY consoles and the main desktop. The usual way to do it would be either toggle back to your desktop (Ctrl-alt-F7) and browse for the log files or open a second TTY (Ctrl-alt-f1 through f6) and look for log files.

But maybe you can tee everything that gets displayed as stdout to your own file? Someone else will have to help with the syntax but maybe something like this (in concept):

sudo su -
apt-get update
apt-get -y dist-upgrade 2>&1 | tee /home/daryl/tmp_apt-get_log.log
/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend stop
do-release-upgrade 2>&1 | tee /home/daryl/tmp_upgrade_log.log
reboot

The aim of what I am suggesting is to get a copy of the output into a temp log file (and to screen while it is happening) so you can easily browse from your desktop and copy / paste from (if necessary) later. Hopefully someone can fine-tune the syntax appropriately.

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