Upgrade fails due to no video driver - Intel removed during upgrade

[Scott Kitterman]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Upgraded an Intel 865G based machine from Karmic (Kubuntu) to Lucid. During the upgrade xserver-xorg-video-intel was removed, leaving the system with no video driver. Eventually the system froze (not 100% that's related) and after reboot had no X due to the lack of the driver. Rebooting single user with networking and installing the package solved the problem.

Apt..log showing the removal attached.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: update-manager-kde 1:0.133.11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 6 11:57:26 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks, I added a extra check that ensures this does not happen.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.134

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update-manager (1:0.134) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Barry Warsaw ]
  * Bump up the amount of /boot space calculated per kernel. The current
    value appears to undercount by about 260K/kernel. (LP: #132311)

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * refresh translations from launchpad
  * update "10.04" strings to "10.04 LTS" and unfuzzy translations
  * when requesting the release announcement, append ?lang=current_lang
    to the request URI
  * update quirks for updates from hardy
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgrade.cfg, DistUpgrade/DistUpgrade.cfg.hardy:
    - add extra protection against video driver removal (LP: #556629)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py:
    - improve logging and save system state before performing the
      upgrade. Suggested by Matt Zimmerman (LP: #551646)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:18:25 +0200