Failed upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10

[VanillaMozilla]

Ubuntu system, starting from LUbuntu desktop. Packages could not be upgraded. Samba could not be updated. Finally, updater told me upgrade had failed and system was in unstable state. It told me to file a bug report and include file /var/log/dist-update. That file doesn't exist, but /var/log/dist-upgrade/* exists. Will attach main.log and crash report if Launchpad will let me.

Update software requested a password to complete report files. Validation failed because it was asking for a _root_ password, and root is not enabled on Ubuntu systems.

What a mess.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.152.25.13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-16.67-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-16-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: f8c6a843083cabf4325fbeebf214c5f6
CheckboxSystem: abf102d6ef41328208f5c1554651535a
Date: Sat Nov 3 13:20:08 2012
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2012-11-03 (0 days ago)

[VanillaMozilla (vanillamozilla)]

OK, one file was attached automatically. I can supply others on request. I have /tmp/apport.update-manager.1jguAX.apport as well as /var/log/dist-upgrade/*.

[VanillaMozilla (vanillamozilla)]

I have more information. At least the problems appear to be minor, since nothing melted.

The problem occurred on a second computer. Both computers evidently repaired themselves so they were left in a bootable state. On the second computer the command
dpkg --configure -a
was issued.

Error message on updating the second computer:
"Could not install /var/cache/apt/archive/samba_2%
3a3.5.11adfsg-ubuntu2.3_i386.deb
subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2"

There appear to be two easy workarounds for samba.
1. I used Synaptic to repair samba.
2. On a second computer,
sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback
repaired samba automatically.

[dino99 (9d9)]

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