[Bug 1549067] Re: Ubuntu GNOME Trusty to Xenial release upgrade fails

[Erick Brunzell]

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Title:
  Ubuntu GNOME Trusty to Xenial release upgrade fails

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I haven't been able to recover from the release upgrade failure to the
  point where I could boot the affected OS and file a bug properly using
  ubuntu-bug so I had no choice but to do this the dirty and least
  effective way.

  Preparing for Ubuntu GNOME Xenial Beta 1 I tried a Trusty -> Xenial
  release upgrade using update-manager -d -c and it began oddly, that is
  no GUI appeared and it seemed to offer the upgrade via terminal but I
  decided to proceed. Below is a copy-n-paste of part of the terminal
  output:

  lance at lance-desktop:~$ update-manager -d -c
  Checking for a new Ubuntu release
  authenticate 'xenial.tar.gz' against 'xenial.tar.gz.gpg' 
  extracting 'xenial.tar.gz'
  can't load DistUpgradeViewGtk3 (Namespace Vte not available for version 2.91)
  can't load DistUpgradeViewGtk3 (Namespace Vte not available for version 2.91)
  can't load DistUpgradeViewKDE (No module named 'PyQt4')

  <snip>

  Calculating the changes

  Calculating the changes

  Do you want to start the upgrade?

  
  2 installed packages are no longer supported by Canonical. You can 
  still get support from the community. 

  98 packages are going to be removed. 431 new packages are going to be 
  installed. 1347 packages are going to be upgraded. 

  You have to download a total of 910 M. This download will take about 
  11 minutes with your connection. 

  Installing the upgrade can take several hours. Once the download has 
  finished, the process cannot be canceled. 

   Continue [yN]  Details [d]

  End copy-n-paste.

  No doubt now my decision to proceed was foolish but somewhat early in
  the upgrade process I checked and there was no activity whatsoever, no
  hard drive activity lights, just a black screen with a blinking cursor
  in the upper left hand corner. So i waited for quite a while and
  finally did a hard reset. Not surprisingly things were quite broken
  and despite a considerable amount of effort I've not been able to
  recover to use ubuntu-bug.

  I did however copy the full /var/log/dist-upgrade folder to a flash
  drive with the exception of apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz which
  complained about permissions. It consists of:

  20160223-1734  20160223-1740  apt.log  lspci.txt  main.log.partial

  Both 20160223-1734  & 20160223-1740 are folders that contain
  additional files but for now I'll attach the apt.log,  lspci.txt, and
  main.log.partial.

  I was testing on bare metal with a wired connection:

  Intel Atom CPU  230 @ 1.60GHz
  Intel 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
  Intel N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
  Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
  2GB DDR2 RAM

  That had been a fresh install of Ubuntu GNOME 14.04.4 leftover from
  Trusty iso-testing. Media info shows amd64 (20160217.1).

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