Trusty to Xenial release upgrade fails
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I haven't been able to recover from the release upgrade failure to the point where I could boot the affected OS and file a bug properly using ubuntu-bug so I had no choice but to do this the dirty and least effective way.
Preparing for Ubuntu GNOME Xenial Beta 1 I tried a Trusty -> Xenial release upgrade using update-manager -d -c and it began oddly, that is no GUI appeared and it seemed to offer the upgrade via terminal but I decided to proceed. Below is a copy-n-paste of part of the terminal output:
lance@lance-
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
authenticate 'xenial.tar.gz' against 'xenial.tar.gz.gpg'
extracting 'xenial.tar.gz'
can't load DistUpgradeViewGtk3 (Namespace Vte not available for version 2.91)
can't load DistUpgradeViewGtk3 (Namespace Vte not available for version 2.91)
can't load DistUpgradeViewKDE (No module named 'PyQt4')
<snip>
Calculating the changes
Calculating the changes
Do you want to start the upgrade?
2 installed packages are no longer supported by Canonical. You can
still get support from the community.
98 packages are going to be removed. 431 new packages are going to be
installed. 1347 packages are going to be upgraded.
You have to download a total of 910 M. This download will take about
11 minutes with your connection.
Installing the upgrade can take several hours. Once the download has
finished, the process cannot be canceled.
Continue [yN] Details [d]
End copy-n-paste.
No doubt now my decision to proceed was foolish but somewhat early in the upgrade process I checked and there was no activity whatsoever, no hard drive activity lights, just a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner. So i waited for quite a while and finally did a hard reset. Not surprisingly things were quite broken and despite a considerable amount of effort I've not been able to recover to use ubuntu-bug.
I did however copy the full /var/log/
20160223-1734 20160223-1740 apt.log lspci.txt main.log.partial
Both 20160223-1734 & 20160223-1740 are folders that contain additional files but for now I'll attach the apt.log, lspci.txt, and main.log.partial.
I was testing on bare metal with a wired connection:
Intel Atom CPU 230 @ 1.60GHz
Intel 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
Intel N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
2GB DDR2 RAM
That had been a fresh install of Ubuntu GNOME 14.04.4 leftover from Trusty iso-testing. Media info shows amd64 (20160217.1).
summary: |
- Ubuntu GNOME Trusty to Xenial release upgrade fails + Trusty to Xenial release upgrade fails |
There are 4 files inside 20160223-1734 and I'll begin attaching them here.