dist-upgrade failed from karmic to lucid

[Nano Taboada]

Binary package hint: apt

foo@bar:/etc/apt$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

foo@bar:/etc/apt$ apt-cache policy apt
apt:
  Installed: 0.7.23.1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.7.23.1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.23.1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

When performed a "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade", the system started to work as expected, then a dialog box asked to restart the system. Apparently something failed during such reboot as I've ended in a root prompt (#). From there I've rebooted the machine, selected the new kernel at grub and everything seemed to be ok but when I'm finally at gnome I've realised no distro upgrade was performed at all, meaning everything looked just like before the upgrade attempt.

foo@bar:/etc/apt$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 9.10 \n \l

Now if I try to run the distro upgrade again:

foo@bar:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get dist-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.

Nothing happens.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun May 2 02:22:23 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: apt 0.7.23.1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-21.59-generic
SourcePackage: apt
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-21-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1547): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1547): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1653): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1634): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (firefox:2287): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

[ronzo (ronaldw)]

My dist-upgrade was interrupted due to a problem with the hylafax-client package. Removing that package and continuing "apt-get dist-upgrade" (by running it again) did not work.

apt-get upgrade or
apt-get install -f

did not work.

Rebooting the machine caused that I cannot reach the machine via ssh... (maybe the system dropped to a root shell when booting again...)

[Torsten Spindler (tspindler)]

What happens when you use the recommend way to upgrade via update-manager/do-release-upgrade from the command line?

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

@Nano, any news about this issue?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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