8.10 cdrom upgrade either doesn't upgrade or doesn't use the CD-ROM

[Ian Johnston]

Binary package hint: upgrade-system

I have tried to upgrade two machines from 8.04 to 8.10 using the alternative CD and cdromupgrade. At the start of this process you are asked whether to download the latest version from the net.

1.On Machine 1 I answered "yes" and the upgrade proceeded to download 450MB - in other words, effectively the whole distribution. Unless 450MB of updates had been issued in one day, that is.

2.On Machine 2 I answered "no" and the upgrade ran fast and from the CD. Except that it didn't: when I ran update manager there was a slew of uninstallable upgrades. No option for a distribution upgrade was given, but that was what was needed, via apt-get.

The CD-ROM upgrade is a nice idea, but it would be nice if it used the CD-ROM and did the upgrade. At the moment it's either one or the other, which is not a great deal of use.

[Michele Mangili (mangilimic)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the log files from '/var/log/dist-upgrade/' to this bug report as separate attachments? Thanks in advance.

[XXXXXXX (yddraiggoch)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[David Ally (david-ally)]

Well... I tried upgrading also using the alternate cd, and it would start first from the cd rom, and later go back to fetch files from the Internet, even though i choose not to update during upgrade. My Internet connection is slow and it normally report it is going to take up to 6hours to download those file.

Below is the log file from my laptop

2009-05-27 16:12:15,778 INFO release-upgrader version '0.93.32' started
2009-05-27 16:12:16,318 DEBUG svg pixbuf loader failed (Error displaying image)
2009-05-27 16:12:16,409 DEBUG Using 'DistUpgradeViewGtk' view
2009-05-27 16:12:16,532 DEBUG enable dpkg --force-overwrite
2009-05-27 16:12:16,690 DEBUG lsb-release: 'hardy'
2009-05-27 16:12:16,690 DEBUG _pythonSymlinkCheck run
2009-05-27 16:12:16,737 DEBUG openCache()
2009-05-27 16:12:18,273 DEBUG /openCache()
2009-05-27 16:12:18,274 DEBUG needServerMode(): run in 'desktop' mode, (because of pkg 'ubuntu-desktop')
2009-05-27 16:12:18,274 DEBUG checkViewDepends()
2009-05-27 16:12:23,230 DEBUG useNetwork: 'False' (selected by user)
2009-05-27 16:12:23,230 DEBUG running doUpdate() (showErrors=False)
2009-05-27 16:12:23,231 DEBUG doUpdate() will not use the network because self.useNetwork==false
2009-05-27 16:12:23,231 DEBUG openCache()
2009-05-27 16:12:24,476 DEBUG /openCache()
2009-05-27 16:12:24,477 DEBUG doPostInitialUpdate
2009-05-27 16:12:24,477 DEBUG quirks: running intrepidPostInitialUpdate
2009-05-27 16:12:24,477 DEBUG running intrepidPostInitialUpdate
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