Re: [orca-list] upgrading lucid to maverick



Hi,
I remember this trick, but I learned a different sequence of letters:
RSEIUB
the mnemonic for it was
"Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring"

-Mallory
Hello, Michael.

I upgraded my system on October 8 to the then Release Candidate as I
knew I'd probably not get it done today. As far as holding down the
power button on the system to do a hard shut down, I know that that is
something which is advised against (I used to do it, too) as it can do
damage to a system if something is being written to the disk.
Unfortunately I upgraded my system via the update-manager-gtk front-end,
so I am unsure as to what happens at the end of the do-release-upgrade
command. I also do not have an answer as to why Orca returned garbled
speech (as I am still a novice with Orca), but I wanted to offer this
piece of advice I learned about how to "gently" reboot a Ubuntu system.
I have done this due to system freezes in the past, and it seems to work
wonderfully. If all else fails, and you want to reboot, this should work
for you (I do not know your visual acuity nor computing experience, so
please forgive me if I am speaking in terms which are too basic.), :

1. Hold down the Alt and SysRq (Print Screen) keys. The Print Screen key
is the next key following the F12 function key on typical QWERTY keyboards.

2. While holding those down, type the following in order. Nothing will
appear to happen until the last letter is pressed: REISUB

This sequence of keystrokes will kill all programs, unmount your drives and
restart.

As previously mentioned, I have used this process for the past couple of
months whenever my system would freeze, and it has worked wonders for me.

I apologise, however, that I am unable to answer your question about Orca.

I hope that this helps in some minuscule way.

Take care.

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