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[Sergio Schvezov <sergio.schvezov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Sam Bull <sam.hacking@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 00:07 +0800, Ricky Chan wrote:
> > I tried to sudo apt-get update and upgrade inside the ubuntu_chroot
> > session. After reboot the screen was lit but in black with adb
> > working.
>
> That generally works for me, with 2 caveats. Looking at the daily
> changelog, apt-get upgrade doesn't always remove the packages that have
> been removed from the daily build. This shouldn't cause any problems
> though, just wastes space.
>
> Second, and this may cause issues, it seems that if the dependencies on
> a package change, then apt-get upgrade doesn't update those packages.
> You can apt-get install these packages, which will update it to the
> latest version and grab the new dependencies.
>
> Failing to install the packages which apt-get upgrade keeps behind
> (which it will warn you about), could result in some packages being
> updated and others not. If those packages work together, you might end
> up with a non-functioning system.
>
> Whether that is what caused your problem or not, I don't know. If you
> can still access the CLI, then run apt-get upgrade again, and check for
> any 'kept behind' packages, and apt-get install them.


If you see a hybris or platform-api package in the list of updates... it
probably means an android side update is needed. These packages are dual
homed.

There are plans to solve this for when saucy is released (not switched to
as we clarified with Oliver).