[Bug 1075235] Re: Upgrad-manager U 11.04 to 11.10 fails

[bsalem]

I don't  want this install issue to fall into limbo because even though
the OS rev from which I upgraded is out of support the version I was
trying to upgrade to IS still supported. In the current version U 11.04,
the file manager is broken insofar as it will not produce new thumbnails
and problems like that have been reported up to12.04. That is loss of
function. I am not sure how much Unity is responsible for that.

Also, I ought to file a bug against KDE as well, for the process to
convert a login session is very poorly designed. If I try to start as
session using KDE my screen goes black and gives me no useful
information for a long time about what it is doing to ready applications
for use by KDE. At a minimum, every *nix system I've ever used, and that
goes back to Version 7 AT&T UNIX (1979), gives some kind of stream of
output about some lengthy process. What Ubuntu is doing is more like
what Microsoft does, makes you wait forever with no information.

The failure of the upgrade, with no recovery steps other than to look
for unsupported packages through a list of about 6500 packages, the
breakage of nautalis in 11.04, and the poor design of GNOME to KDE
login, puts a bad taste in my mouth about Cononical's stewardship of
Ubuntu and makes me think more seriously about moving to another Linux,
and I will go public and vocal with my displeasure!! I worked at Su
Microsystems for 7 years from1997 to 2004 supporting Solaris and Legacy
Compilers and never saw as many screw ups as I have seen since U 9.04 to
U 11.04.repeated breakage of the file manager, x,org problems and now
the above.

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Title:
  Upgrad-manager U 11.04 to 11.10 fails

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
  E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

   This can be caused by:
   * Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
   * Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
   * Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu

  The first two items don't apply. I went into the software manager and looked at "other" packages and removed one that I
  knew was unsupported. Several  other packages got removed too. Tried the upgrade again and it failed in the same way. Do I have a corrupted package list?  I guess I am going to need shell commands to diagnose this.

  My /home is within the boot partition and that is how Ubuntu installs. It would be nice for there to be an option at install to
  create a separate partition for /home so that in case an system cannot be upgraded, it can be reinstalled without threatening /home. I was going to do all that instead of trying upgrades and did one upgrade from 10.10 to11.04 which as soon as I got there went out of support. Versions of Ubuntu should have longer support cycles. And apparently the upgrade process is not very robust, either.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.150.5.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-16.67-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-16-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Nov  5 08:40:27 2012
  GConfNonDefault:
   /apps/update-manager/check_new_release_ignore=
   /apps/update-manager/first_run=false
   /apps/update-manager/show_details=true
   /apps/update-manager/window_size=(600,600)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2012-11-05 (0 days ago)

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