This may be related to bug #1555237, although that is marked as "fix released"
I was prompted to upgrade from 15.10 to 16.04 last night, by the graphical updater. It disabled my PPAs, downloaded the packages and began the install. When I looked again later, I had a dialog box giving information on the networking changes in LXC, but the window manager decorations had gone, unity sidebar was gone, top bar was gone, screen and windows unresponsive to mouse clicks and alt-tab not working. There was no way to switch to the dialog box to continue the update.
Running "ps aux | grep update" gave:
neil 3473 0.1 0.0 4476 688 ? SN 16:52 0:13 /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/pkexec /usr/bin/do-release-upgrade --frontend=DistUpgradeViewGtk3
root 5556 1.3 1.7 638124 144824 ? SNl 16:59 1:53 /usr/bin/python3 /tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-31my8tm6/xenial --mode=server --frontend=DistUpgradeViewGtk3
root 6290 5.4 1.3 634492 108848 pts/5 SNs+ 18:18 3:18 /usr/bin/python3 /tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-31my8tm6/xenial --mode=server --frontend=DistUpgradeViewGtk3
root 15461 0.0 0.2 66592 17348 pts/14 SN+ 18:35 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst upgrade 0.20-0ubuntu4.1
root 15478 0.0 0.0 4508 1708 pts/14 SN+ 18:35 0:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst upgrade 0.20-0ubuntu4.1
root 15490 0.0 0.0 24676 3332 pts/14 SN+ 18:35 0:00 whiptail --backtitle Package configuration --title Configuring lxd --output-fd 11 --nocancel --msgbox lxcbr0 is being replaced by lxdbr0 With this package upgrade LXD is moving away from the LXC provided lxcbr0 bridge and moving to its own lxdbr0 bridge. The reason for this switch is: - Drop the dependency on the old LXC (lxc1) package. - Only run the bridge when LXD is running. - Don't hardcode a subnet which may be used by the user. Important differences between lxcbr0 and lxdbr0: - The lxdbr0 bridge DOES NOT come with ANY configured IPv4 or IPv6 subnet. - The bridge provides basic HTTP connectivity out of the box by way of a tiny HTTP PROXY server running on an IPv6 link-local address. - The user IS EXPECTED to configure the bridge to use an UNUSED subnet on their network. To configure lxdbr0 to your liking, please run: dpkg-reconfigure -p medium lxd To stay on the old lxcbr0 bridge, make sure you have the "lxc1" package installed, then select the "use an existing bridge" option. --scrolltext 20 77
neil 18178 0.0 0.0 18368 504 tty4 S+ 19:18 0:00 grep upgrade
I killed PID 15490, which allowed the install process to continue, but without any graphical progress box. I had to monitor the upgrade process in "top" and manually reboot when all the likely upgrade processes were finished.
On rebooting into 16.04 and logging in, I had to reset compiz with "dconf reset -f /org/compiz/ && setsid unity" to bring back my sidebar and window decorations.
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There have been a couple of similar bugs mentioned which may be similar. See https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/2086/page=1 and the transcript from user "xenialdenial" on http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2016/04/23/%23ubuntu.txt
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My system -
15.10 amd64 on a bcache'd ext4 partition (installed de novo) with an attempted upgrade to 16.04 using standard graphical updater when prompted. Using proprietary nvidia drivers from the ubuntu repos. My post-upgrade /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ contains the following PPAs/repos:
google-chrome.list
google-chrome.list.distUpgrade
google-chrome.list.save
njmcphail-ubuntu-ag-dead-fork-wily.list
njmcphail-ubuntu-ag-dead-fork-wily.list.distUpgrade
njmcphail-ubuntu-ag-dead-fork-wily.list.save
syncthing-release.list
syncthing-release.list.distUpgrade
syncthing-release.list.save
ubuntu-sdk-team-ubuntu-ppa-wily.list
ubuntu-sdk-team-ubuntu-ppa-wily.list.distUpgrade
ubuntu-sdk-team-ubuntu-ppa-wily.list.save
ubuntu-sdk-team-ubuntu-tools-development-wily.list
ubuntu-sdk-team-ubuntu-tools-development-wily.list.distUpgrade
ubuntu-sdk-team-ubuntu-tools-development-wily.list.save
Similar situation on a Ubuntu Headless Server on AWS
upgraded from 15.05 to 16.04 and after the install interruptedI now have:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
however when I long in I get
New release '16.04 LTS' available.
Run 'do-release-
running
~$ do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
No new release found
#sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Hit:1 http://
Get:2 http://
Get:3 http://
Fetched 132 kB in 0s (327 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
fired up a back up aws instance and did a release upgrade to 15.0
did another release upgrade to 16.4
upgrade failed at the same place.
killed the hung process as described above and the upgrade continued until.
Errors were encountered while processing:
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mysql-server
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