Upgrade to 14.10: Could not install the upgrade

[Victor S]

During an upgrade of Kubuntu from version 14.04 LTS to 14.10.
Upgrade is at 99%.

"The upgrade was aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state. A recovery will run now."

Ubuntu 14.10

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

  apport-collect 1385741

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Victor S (zeron00)]

No luck! I ran this command twice. The results are the same. After a few seconds a message appears about starting Chromium as root and a notification from AppArmor pop up: "Profile: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser//sanitized_helper Operation: capable Name: dac_read_search Logfile: /var/log/kern.log For more information, please see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingApparmor"
After this a message appears that "Firefox is already running but not responding." (Yet I have no problem with Firefox). In the end I have to abort manually, otherwise it just waits for something that has no intention of ever appearing. Here is the output in the console:

"zeron@ZeronKb:~$ sudo apport-collect 1385741
[sudo] password for zeron:
The authorization page:
 (https://launchpad.net/+authorize-token?oauth_token=gQ2hTqGWmWkHntBhm9G2&allow_permission=DESKTOP_INTEGRATION)
should be opening in your browser. Use your browser to authorize
this program to access Launchpad on your behalf.
Press any key to continue or wait (5) seconds...
Waiting to hear from Launchpad about your decision...
[2512:2512:1030/230415:ERROR:desktop_window_tree_host_x11.cc(769)] Not implemented reached in virtual void views::DesktopWindowTreeHostX11::InitModalType(ui::ModalType)
ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment.
[2561:2561:1030/230415:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(308)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process

(process:2579): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed

(firefox:2579): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading icon: Couldn't recognise the image file format for file '/usr/share/icons/oxygen/16x16/actions/dialog-ok.png'

(firefox:2579): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading icon: Couldn't recognise the image file format for file '/usr/share/icons/oxygen/16x16/actions/dialog-ok.png'
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 594, in <module>
    app.run_argv()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 652, in run_argv
    return self.run_update_report()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 498, in run_update_report
    if not self.crashdb.can_update(self.options.update_report):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/crashdb_impl/launchpad.py", line 507, in can_update
    bug = self.launchpad.bugs[id]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/crashdb_impl/launchpad.py", line 160, in launchpad
    version='1.0')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/launchpadlib/launchpad.py", line 539, in login_with
    credential_save_failed, version)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/launchpadlib/launchpad.py", line 346, in _authorize_token_and_login
    credentials = authorization_engine(credentials, credential_store)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/launchpadlib/credentials.py", line 515, in __call__
    self.make_end_user_authorize_token(credentials, request_token_string)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/launchpadlib/credentials.py", line 607, in make_end_user_authorize_token
    time.sleep(access_token_poll_time)
KeyboardInterrupt

[Victor S (zeron00)]

However, in the end I did upgrade the system. I restarted the computer. On the second restart it allowed me to log-in. I ran Synaptic and removed all the broken packages, then reinstalled those I needed with all the proper dependencies.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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