On 14-06-16 07:34 AM, sarah soulaimana wrote: > ** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) > Assignee: (unassigned) => sarah soulaimana (psy-4du976)
Hello Sarah and thank you for picking up this bug report. For testing purposes I still have one laptop on 13.10. It can probably be set in a similar status as the laptop on which the error was reported to reproduce the potential error once a patch is ready. I can read python and write / edit simple stuff in it, if you need my assistance, and I am generally available at least one evening per week to contribute to a better 'buntu experience. The laptop on which the error occurred is no longer available. I need it for productive work, so I simply rsynced my user folder to my backup server and installed xubuntu 14.04 from scratch onto the SSD. A few remarks about it and why the upgrade might have failed: Status prior to the attempted release upgrade: * When I bought the laptop, July 2013, Ubuntu 13.04 did not support it. * It started life with a clean 13.10 beta install. * To add WiFi support (critical!), I had to build a patched kernel from source (3.10 if my memory does not betray me) with Intel's latest WiFi drivers. * At some point the distribution kernel caught up and I no longer used the customized kernel, but I did not remove it. * A few other non-critical hardware issues (audio) were fixed over the fall. The laptop was the guinea pig to test that the developer's fixes worked. I no longer recall the exact details, but it is all buried in a Launchpad bug report and if need be I can search for it. * The bluetooth functionality in 13.10 was badly broken and IIRC I installed a deb package on top of it. Not elegant, but fixed the immediate issue of using bluetooth devices with the laptop. * I needed a working ffmpeg and installed that from source code, and some other image processing software to deal with video stabilization as well. I no longer recall the details, sorry. * The machine was mainly used for office work, communication, and to a lesser extent media production and consumption. I installed my favourite software for these tasks via PPAs (LibreOffice, Inkscape, VLC, etc., all pretty much "mainstream" software). The failed upgrade: * First I tried the canonical way: updated to the latest 13.10 and ran sudo do-release-upgrade. It reported something like can't calculate the upgrade and failed. * I looked in the log and it showed some packages that could not be upgraded. They did not seem critical to me. mostly because I expected a newer version to be present in 14.10 and otherwise because I felt I do not need them, so I just sudo apt-get purged them. * I really went at it like a butcher because I did not care about the software listed as conflicting in the logs. Slaughtering packages without keeping a detailed log of them might not be a good idea, but at that point I was tired, frustrated, and just wanted 14.04 to work on that laptop. * After a few trial and errors, this new error popped up and I filed the report. * After filing the report, I formatted the SSD and installed 14.04 clean. Now I am happy with it, until the next upgrade ;-) The available laptop: * When I bought the new laptop, I kept the old one. It is still there, updated it to the latest 13.10 and not much in use these days. * It's currently installed system started life in 2010 or 2011 and has been regularly upgraded every six months with no particular troubles. Thanks again for taking up this bug report. Let me know if I can be of any help testing patches, etc. Yuv -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1329037 Title: update xubuntu 13.10 to 14.04 fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1329037/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
