Impossible to upgrade 13.04 to 13.10 on 1024x600 screen

[StefanHuszics]

To upgrade (x)ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10 on my laptop with a 1024x600px screen is impossible.

Reason:
The "Do you want to start the upgrade?" popup has ALL buttons for yes/no confirmation OUTSIDE of the available screenspace. Thus you cant even abort the procedure, let alone start it, just remain stuck in limbo (until you kill it via commandline).

As seen on the screenshot there is ample space in the pop-up, but the forced minimum height of the popup still pushes the buttons out of reach off screen. The seen size is after manually changing the popup window size to the absolute minimum allowed.

Potentially there are several solutions here
1) Lower the forced minimum height requirement to something that is a bit more sane (eg 400px insted of 800? or whatever the current limit is)

2) Is the any real logical reason for requiring a MINIMUM height at all? If not, why not have a default and let the user be able to resize the window as they please/need?

3) There is an invention called scroll-bar. Excellent tool for allowing things that don't fit in eg a popup window to still be both readable and reachable.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.192.13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-35.50-generic 3.8.13.13
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-35-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.5
Architecture: i386
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Wed Feb 19 06:25:56 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-03 (321 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: dist-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2014-02-19 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

[madbiologist (me-again)]

What happens if you press the TAB key followed by the ENTER key?

[StefanHuszics (stefan-huszics)]

Don't know. Attached the laptop to an external screen and made the update via that, so no easy way to test for me any longer.

However, I presume tab would move it to a button and enter would press it. But as a user with the buttons off screen I would not know how many buttons there are nor which one in the tab-order-list did the action I wanted.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Opening a command prompt and typing sudo do-release-upgrade will definitely work.