Upgrade from 13.10 to 14.04 did not complete, but booted into 14.04?

[John Center]

I upgraded from 12.10 to 13.10 w/o a problem. I rebooted several times ok. I then tried to upgrade to 14.04. The files downloaded successfully & it was about half way through the install when I received a fatal error & was told it would have to fallback to the previous version. I could not tell what the error was from. I had seen 2 error messages previously, one on the libpostproc52 error & the other on a problem with apport-gtk - MaxReports reached.

I let it back out. I thought I would see messages that it had restored the old files, but instead it looked like it was partially continuing. It definitely did not take very long before it said it was ready to restart. I restarted the PC & eventually came up in 14.04!!:
jcenter@avanti-due:~$ uname -a
Linux avanti-due 3.13.0-32-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jul 7 11:32:12 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

How do I determine what condition my system is in? How do I complete the installation? I'm writing this from the upgraded system!

Thanks.

    -John

[John Center (john-center)]

I saw a reference to this log file in another bug report. It has the particular parts of the upgrade that failed.

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[John Center (john-center)]

I've been having freeze ups since the upgrade. After a day or so, everything is frozen except the mouse. Thunderbird freezes up & grays out after a few minutes when started. I'm also having a problem with one of my monitors staying blank after the screen saver kicks in, though I'm having it checked/replaced. (I didn't have a problem with it before this, but stranger things have been known to happen.)

Could any of these issues be related? What should I do to confirm these problems are related and/or repair this? And, why would the upgrade say there was a fatal error & that it had to fall back, but it then apparently completed the upgrade? I greatly appreciate any help!

Thanks.

    -John

[John Center (john-center)]

Originally, I posted a question (#251577), then followed up with a bug report. I was asked to run sudo apt-get upgrade on 7/15 & I got the following answer:

jcenter@avanti-due:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Just on a chance, I ran sudo apt-get upgrade again today & now I see the following:

jcenter@avanti-due:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apt apt-transport-https apt-utils compiz compiz-core compiz-gnome
  compiz-plugins-default compizconfig-settings-manager dput file file-roller
  gir1.2-nautilus-3.0 gir1.2-nmgtk-1.0 gir1.2-pango-1.0 google-chrome-stable
  gufw libapt-inst1.5 libapt-pkg4.12 libavformat54 libavutil52
  libcompizconfig0 libdecoration0 libmagic1 libminiupnpc8
  libnautilus-extension1a libnm-gtk-common libnm-gtk0 libpango-1.0-0
  libpango-1.0-0:i386 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-0:i386 libpangocairo-1.0-0
  libpangocairo-1.0-0:i386 libpangoft2-1.0-0 libpangoft2-1.0-0:i386
  libpangoxft-1.0-0 libpangoxft-1.0-0:i386 libswscale2 libunity-core-6.0-9
  linux-firmware linux-headers-3.13.0-32 linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic
  linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic
  linux-libc-dev linux-signed-image-3.13.0-32-generic nautilus nautilus-data
  network-manager-gnome pm-utils python-compizconfig python3-magic shotwell
  shotwell-common transmission-common transmission-gtk unity unity-services
  virtualbox-4.3
59 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 213 MB of archives.
After this operation, 11.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

When I ran this before, everything was up to date. Now, not only do 59 packages need to be upgraded, but I see many of the core 14.04 installation needs to be upgraded! For example, the kernel version is the same as what I'm running:

Linux avanti-due 3.13.0-32-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jul 7 11:32:12 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Why would this happen? Should I do the upgrade?

Thanks.

    -John