1:1s with two developers and member of local staff
Met with EU distributor about last steps to get sales going
Began prepping for next TinyPilot dev sprint
Unsuccessfully tried to provision a testing laptop with Ubuntu
It’s the first time I can remember encountering computer hardware where Ubuntu won’t install.
I couldn’t start the installer at all on Ubuntu 18 or 20.
I got the installer to run on Ubuntu 16, but when it finished the install, the OS just sits frozen
This was on a Dell XPS M1530 that I bought used since we only need it for occasional testing, but I guess I should have bought a laptop made within the last 10 years.
I was too careless in the first release, as I pushed the fix without properly validating it
The issue is that because Debian 11 is now out, if you run apt-get update on Debian 10, it errors out because it wants you to explicitly accept that the apt repositories have switched from stable to oldstable
The fix is to add the flag --allow-releaseinfo-change-suite, which says, “Yes, it’s okay if stable switches to oldstable, I still want to update.”
