do-release-upgrade can't be continued after drop to shell
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager-core (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I'm attempting to run an upgrade from 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS. I ran "do-release-upgrade -d" and after some time the process reported a conflict in a configuration file.
Selecting "drop to shell to examine differences" gave me a shell alright, but there were some odd issues with the TTY - line breaks not performing a carriage return and so on. Then typing "exit" to exit that shell exited the entire install process (which is running in tmux or screen or similar).
The end result is a half-installed system in an unknown state, with no obvious means of recovery, and I'm going to have to revert to backup. Consequently I can't give any useful information about version numbers, except all packages had been updated to the most recent in Lucid prior to upgrade.
I would STRONGLY suggest you provide an option to run "do-release-
Incidentally this was also reported by someone else here: http://
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.