Feisty to Gibbon upgrade crashed completely

[Dikke_lu]

My upgrade crashed completely.
First on a package called debconf.

And after that on something else but i couldn't see the name because screens went black.

So everybody be carefull when upgrading (make backups)

I'm reinstalling with the live cd, I hope this works

[Dikke_lu]

I'm waiting at "Configuring apt" and "scanning the mirror".

This is already 10 minutes. Will it ever continue or .... ?

[jvance]

Same thing here. The upgrade was very messy. The intall tool fell over three times on different packages and left the system half-usable. I got it going again using adept-manager after clearing out processes and the lock file, but then it committed seppuku about 300 packages in. Finally, I rebooted, and of course X wouldn't start. I then had to remember how to walk without crutches, read the man pages for apt-get, dpkg and dselect, and ran apt-get dist-upgrade. That ran to completion, but complained about a few packages on the way. Ran dpkg --configure -a, and it bitched about acpid and wouldn't do anything about it. apt-get installed openbsd-inetd as suggested, and that didn't fix the problem either, so I reinstalled rlinetd.

I'm left with acpid, acpi-support and powermanagement(something) unconfigured, but everything else seems to work now. However, I'm left with a very bad feeling about this install, and I will probably download the dvd and do a clean install from that later this week when the servers aren't so slammed.

[kpenrose]

I found that I needed to do a repetitive cycle of dpkg --configure -a
and
apt-get install -f "name of bad package here"

in order to get the upgrade done.

[integr8e]

I'm waiting at "Configuring apt" and "scanning the mirror".

This is already 10 minutes. Will it ever continue or .... ?

With my installation, this took a while, but it did finish.

As far as upgrading goes, I've found if you run into problems using the update tool through Adept, instead of clicking the "close" button on the error message, loosing all the changes that have just been made, and returning to the same configuration you were at before, hit Ctrl+Alt+Esc and click the update tool to immediately close it; this will allow you to keep the Gutsy repos. Then open Konsole and type "sudo dpkg --configure -a", "sudo apt-get install -f", "sudo apt-get update", and lastly, "sudo apt-get upgrade". This should continue the upgrade progress from where the update tool left off, and allow you to install Gutsy anyway.

[verndog]

[ I'm waiting at "Configuring apt" and "scanning the mirror". ]
At 82% on a new install mine went from "Copying files..."
to "Scanning the mirror". I let it run for several minutes. Nothing
happened. I rebooted and reinstalled but turned off the internet connection.
It still went to "Scanning the mirror" at 82% but this time after just a couple of minutes it errored out and continued, but reported no connection. The install completed. The problem was I needed to edit the service.list file and remove the edited out lines.

[csabimeta]

I found that I needed to do a repetitive cycle of dpkg --configure -a
and
apt-get install -f "name of bad package here"

in order to get the upgrade done.

Me too. And the download of 1881 new files tokk about 10 hours with a 1Mbit/s DSL connection . kpenrose, i made the same issues. The installation process started, worked a bit, and after an ldap crash thing (that I connot exagly remember, hanged. I had to reboot, and I experienced some problems:
1. dpkg --configure -a worked, ok. apt-get update, apgrade dist-upgrade tells that the system is up to date
2. no kde, kdm won't start

I know these are caused by manual interrupt of the installaton. I want to resume the upgrade process know, is it possible without a GUI.
Please help.
Thanks,
Csaba

[tribunal]

I'm not a guru in Kubuntu, but then I have similar problems, I have used all console methods (dpkg --configure -a, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade) and aptitude
For me using aptitude was a good solution
Abot KDE - check if you have installed new kernel/modules

[csabimeta]

I'm not a guru in Kubuntu, but then I have similar problems, I have used all console methods (dpkg --configure -a, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade) and aptitude
For me using aptitude was a good solution
Abot KDE - check if you have installed new kernel/modules

first, thanks for quick reply tribunal!
I'm at work now, so I can only tomorrow check out things.

[csabimeta]

Thanks tribunal! Aptitude did the trick. I installed recommended packages, then some of the needed kernel modules. Kubuntu Gusty is great!