On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Jean-François Bilodeau wrote: > Though I have a couple of machines, I always have live cds or bootable USB > drives so I can repair failed upgrades / corrupt system. The rare time I need > a second system is usually to serve as a wired Internet connection until I > resurect the wifi on the failed machine. as a followup, i did a dist-upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10, then to 13.04, and the only issue i had was being briefly unable to log into the desktop due to some strange, new feature involving passwordless logins to the desktop. once i fixed that, everything's just worked. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================