do-release-ubgrade from 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS fails

[Mark Fortescue]

The command fails as shown:

> sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [198 B]
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1156 kB]
Fetched 1156 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
authenticate 'trusty.tar.gz' against 'trusty.tar.gz.gpg'
extracting 'trusty.tar.gz'
can't load DistUpgradeViewText (unsupported locale setting)

(process:24719): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.
can't load DistUpgradeViewGtk3 (Gtk couldn't be initialized)
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/constants.py:26: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion `g_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed
  import gobject._gobject

** (trusty:24719): WARNING **: Command line `dbus-launch --autolaunch=20a1515e7ef2f2b18635e6124c5f4699 --binary-syntax --close-stderr' exited with non-zero exit status 1: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.\n
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:40: Warning: specified class size for type `PyGtkGenericCellRenderer' is smaller than the parent type's `GtkCellRenderer' class size
  from gtk import _gtk
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:40: Warning: g_type_get_qdata: assertion `node != NULL' failed
  from gtk import _gtk

One of the causes is simply that my local setting is 'LANG=C' which is the default locale and must always be supported by the C library despite the messages given (it is the default so it must be supported !!!).

Using 'LANG=enGB.utf8 sudo do-release-upgrade' gets further but I still get python/gtk warnings that someone needs to sort out.

gtk: gir1.2-gtk-2.0: Installed: 2.24.10-0ubuntu6.2
python: Installed: 2.7.3-0ubuntu2.2

The starting point was 10.04 LTS. This was upgraded to 12.04.5 LTS and I am now trying to update to 14.04 LTS.

[Mark Fortescue (mark-mtfhpc)]

Installation now totally bust - will have to revert to LTS 10.04 backup and start again - another 16 hours of pain.

Key Failures:

Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...

(gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:2410): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.32.4/./gobject/gtype.c:2722: You forgot to call g_type_init()

(gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:2410): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.32.4/./gobject/gtype.c:2722: You forgot to call g_type_init()

(gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:2410): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_interface_add_prerequisite: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_INTERFACE (interface_type)' failed

(gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:2410): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `result != 0' failed

(gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:2410): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_add_interface_static: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed

(gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:2410): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `result != 0' failed

(gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:2410): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
WARNING: icon cache generation failed

and

Unknown AddHypen directive USEFILE in line: ==USEFILE /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/config/language.us /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/config/lang\
uage.us.def==!
Unknown AddHypen directive USEFILE in line: ==USEFILE /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/config/language.us /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/config/lang\
uage.us.def==!
Unknown AddHypen directive USEFILE in line: ==USEFILE /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/config/language.us /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/config/lang\
uage.us.def==!
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time...
updmap-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/updmap.n0uWooGy
Please include this file if you report a bug.

Sometimes, not accepting conffile updates in /etc/texmf/updmap.d
causes updmap-sys to fail. Please check for files with extension
.dpkg-dist or .ucf-dist in this directory

dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tex-common
Error in function:

A fatal error occurred

No recovery options available from this point on as the package database has now become too badly corrupted.

As a release upgrade procedure - d0-release-ubgrade from LTS-12.04 to 14.04 is fundamentally broken as it corrupts the system irrecoverably unless you un-install an un-known quantity of packages that it can't hack before you start.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

It'd be helpful if you were to provide the file /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz from the system, this way we can try and investigate which packages the release upgrader "can't hack".

The files apt.log, apt-term.log and main.log from the same folder would be even more helpful.

[Mark Fortescue (mark-mtfhpc)]

I am finally back at square one: 10.04 LTS. I have attached the output of 'apt-show-versions' just in case something in this is important in this two phase update.
The only non-default environment setting is the locale: LANG=C.
I will start by doing the upgrade to 12.04 LTS and them make backups of the intermediate step so that (assuming it fails as before) I can recover to the intermediate step in less time.
The upgrades will be done over ssh as before and I will try to capture any unexpected behaviour for analysis. This make take some time as I have other work to do so will have to fit the slow interactive update parts in with other things.

[Mark Fortescue (mark-mtfhpc)]

Having restored from backup, I restarted the upgrade from LTS 10.04. A bin problematic but I eventually arrived at LTS 12.04.5 and created backups of this version for recovery.
I then started the update from LTS 12.04.5 to LTS 14.04.
The first command used was 'sudo do-release-upgrade' but this fails as my locale is 'C'.
The second command used was 'LANG=enGB.utf8 sudo do-release-upgrade' (to get round some insanity where the default locale is broken).
This runs for some time (with segmentation faults and other errors) and then fails with a fatal error leaving the system in a broken but functional state between LTS 12.04.5 and LTS 14.04.
In the attached pack.tar are the following:
 1) installed-LTS-12.04.5.gz: Output of apt-show-versions before starting upgrade.
 2) updmap.3rc9Fc0L.gz: Output that the log indicated may be needed.
 3) dist-upgrade.tar.gz: Tar file of the contents of /var/log/dist-upgrade
Hopefully, Brian and others will be ably to diagnose the issues using the attached files and provide a forward path in the near future.

[Mark Fortescue (mark-mtfhpc)]

No comments for a while an I need to get the system running properly so that I can do a memory upgrade.

Issuing "apt-get update; apt-get -f dist-upgrade' commands eventually gets to a point where the upgrade can't continue due to the failure of the 'updmap' command.

Issuing a 'updmap --syncwithtrees' and then a number more "apt-get update; apt-get -f dist-upgrade' commands eventually results in the instillation of 14.04 completing.

The tex-common package needs to be changed for 'do-release-upgrade' so that it does 'updmap --syncwithtrees' (upgrading from 2.10 to .4.04) when doing its 'Setting up tex-common' code. This would probably be sufficient to prevent upgrade failure.