upgrade 10.04->10.10 failed leaving upgrade incomplete

[Hadmut Danisch]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Hi,

I just upgraded a 10.04 system to 10.10.

The upgrade process succeeded in common, just two packages (gallery2 and virtualbox) failed due to local configurations and a missing link. Nothing remarkable.

However, after performing the upgrade (and getting error messages from these two packages that could easily be fixed manually) update-manager came to the conclusion that the upgrade failed (which is untrue, since everything else worked properly), and leaves the system in a state of unfinished upgrade, i.e. uncleaned. The removal of unsupported or outdated packages, removal of old kernels etc. is not performed.

I currently do not see how to complete the upgrade process. Leaving a system in such a state is not exactly nice. It should always be possible to restart update-manager to continue with the process after fixing problems like those with the mentioned two packages manually.

regards

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.142.20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: vboxdrv
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 18 13:26:01 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: update-manager

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.