ONEIRIC fails on in-place upgrade over wifi

[Tom Louwrier]

hi guys,

Did an in-place upgrade from Natty amd64 today on my Dell Latitude 131L.
Two failures: b43fwcutter and flashplugin-installer.

After plugging in a lan wire I could easily reinstall b43fwcutter and firmware-b43-installer which restored my wifi in seconds.
I noticed the installer looks for the correct firmware online. Now if is first takes down the current driver and disables my internet access, logically it would fail to find any.
The solution here would be to change the order of things: look for the correct components online first, then take down the active driver, replace it and bring up the wifi again with the new version.

Because of this relatively small hickup, the upgrade bombed out before cleaning up properly. I rebooted into Oneiric just fine, and used Janitor to remove most Natty leftovers. Still, thing should be smoother here.

regards
Tom

[Tom Louwrier (tom-louwrier)]

update
Did three inplace upgrades to Oneiric over the last days, all of them on machines that run wifi only. They all failed in exactly the same way, so setting to confirmed,
The new release is found and all the packages are downloaded correctly.
Obviously the wifi cards are then disabled pretty early in the upgrade process, and do not come back on until after reboot. Unfortunately there are some packages that require internet access during install, but without wifi, no joy.
Packages I've seen so far: b43-fwcutter, flashplugin and and their installers.

In itself these are not deadly, but the failures do mean that the install process bombs out with an error report and does not execute the final steps (cleanup and reboot).
I can do this by hand, which is a bit tedious, and then still need to fix some things that are not set correctly like themes.
Reinstalling the wifi card means hooking up the pc to a wired lan, which not everyone had available anymore, or knows how to (really...)
For many people this will not be acceptable. It should work out of the box, and I think that it is well possible to fix this issue.

The wifi should be available for packages that need internet access during install, so either bring up the wifi first, or take it down last.

regards
Tom

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Tom Louwrier, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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