can't upgrade from Feisty

[staubsaugen]

My upgrade keeps on failing partway in. For a while it was failing while downloading all the upgrade pieces, and i kept on restarting it until it finished downloading the pieces, and now when it gets to around that point it just closes and doesn't go anywhere.

[dibl]

Re: can't upgrade from Feisty

Are you sure it didn't finish?

In a console window, enter

cat /etc/issue

what does it say?

[staubsaugen]

Re: can't upgrade from Feisty

Ubuntu 7.04 \n \l


It def didn't finish. I upgraded at work as well and everything finished fine.

Are there any logs? Or is there any way to make it start again from the beginning and download all the required files?

[dibl]

Re: can't upgrade from Feisty

On the chance that the package manager got confused, you could try a

sudo dpkg --configure -a

and perhaps

sudo apt-get autoclean

after that.

and then run Adept again and "fetch" and see if the Version Upgrade light comes on. It acts like it didn't finish, but thinks it did. If that doesn't do it, I guess I'd be burning my Gutsy Alternate Install CD and making sure my data is backed up before I nuke the "/" filesystem. :P

[lmilano]

Re: can't upgrade from Feisty

Ubuntu 7.04 \n \l


It def didn't finish. I upgraded at work as well and everything finished fine.

Are there any logs? Or is there any way to make it start again from the beginning and download all the required files?

I also had a terrible upgrade (I could never have a clean upgrade in Kubuntu). I think it has to do with 3d party packages, I have quite a few. I ended up upgrading manually.

Anyway, I can think of two ways you can try to resume:

• Open Adept again: do you still see the "version upgrade" button ?
• Do you see the "updates" applet showing updates on the panel ? (Kicker). In one of my attempts, I opened it, and it showed a button for the version upgrade.

In my case, Adept segfaulted at some point (see the screenshots - the second is the place where I got stuck after the seg-fault). Upgrading from Synaptic was a mess because many packages ask for confirmation. I ended up dropping to the command line

apt-get upgrade -y --ignore-hold

On the bright side, after the upgrade, everything is working great. Boot time is noticeable faster. 40 secs to the login screen in a modest Windows XP oc'ed to 2600+

Cheers !

[jedidanno]

Re: can't upgrade from Feisty

I am having similar issues. When my system rebooted it came up in terminal mode and no nice GUI KDE. Every time the suggested commands above I get E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

When I do that I get dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0003' near line 2 package 'lib c6':
'triggers-pendi' is not allowed for third (status) word in 'status' field

Any help would be appreciated. This is my first post in this forum and I have been using kubuntu for about 4 months with no problems.

[lmilano]

Re: can't upgrade from Feisty

I am having similar issues. When my system rebooted it came up in terminal mode and no nice GUI KDE. Every time the suggested commands above I get E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

When I do that I get dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0003' near line 2 package 'lib c6':
'triggers-pendi' is not allowed for third (status) word in 'status' field

Try removing everything in the updates directory. See this threads for instance:

http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4886
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=385886

Here is what I would do, in a command line:

cd
cd tmp
mkdir updates
cd updates
sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/updates/* .

And then, again the 'dpkg --configure -a' again ...

Hope this helps, let us know!

BTW, here is a bug report in launchpad about this problem:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...pt/+bug/147429

Cheers!

[jedidanno]

Re: can't upgrade from Feisty

Try removing everything in the updates directory. See this threads for instance:

http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4886
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=385886

Here is what I would do, in a command line:

Code:

cd
cd tmp
mkdir updates
cd updates
sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/updates/* .


And then, again the 'dpkg --configure -a' again ...

Hope this helps, let us know!

BTW, here is a bug report in launchpad about this problem:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...pt/+bug/147429

Cheers!

Thanks for the reply. I found another bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/146943 that I followed and after much troubleshooting I think the upgrade is finishing! I ended up deleting the lines that were causing the problems and then also editing a line as stated in the report. I will let you know if this fixed, thanks again.

[lmilano]

Re: can't upgrade from Feisty

I found another bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/146943 that I followed and after much troubleshooting I think the upgrade is finishing!

I hope so, and I hope (K)Ubuntu upgrades can be made more reliable in the future.

Best luck!

[jedidanno]

Re: can't upgrade from Feisty

Again thanks for the reply. I have 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon up and running although my root folder and sda folders are now on the desktop. I also can't get adept to update correctly it says it is being used by another process.

[lmilano]

Re: can't upgrade from Feisty

Again thanks for the reply. I have 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon up and running although my root folder and sda folders are now on the desktop. I also can't get adept to update correctly it says it is being used by another process.

This can help unlock adept:

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock

Do you still see these two folders in your Desktop ?