Comment 7 for bug 231075

richard, thanks for the quick response. I didn't see it before I started playing myself. It was up-to-date dapper server upgrade to hardy as described in the link. I started playing around with sudo aptitude dist-upgrade/remove and eventually managed to get everything installed (and not broken). It just failed to come up from a reboot though, and without ssh access I can't do anything until I get local access on Monday. This bug should still be fixed - what other information can I provide? Would you expect my system to be stable and "properly" upgraded after fixing whatever is the current problem? i.e. what is the upgrade tool doing that I might not have done using aptitude?