[Bug 1583664] [NEW] My upgrade from 14.04 was very buggy, so re-install necessary. It crashed.

[bek-bek]

Public bug reported:

This seems like the biggest joke ever... only I'm not laughing. 
Now I know why there's that saying "never touch a running system". 

I got my self into a mess by upgrading my dual-boot 14.04 to 16.04. 
Updated everything then chose to "upgrade". 

>From the very first start after the upgrade there was no task bar, no bash, only the desktop... the OS seemed very broken. 
To search online for help, I clicked on an html file on my system, which started firefox. 

Roughly one day later I gave up and decided to re-install 16.04 to replace the broken version. 
Using the live version from a usb. 

That attempt crashed... that is this report.

The sad thing is that this is the type of experience that demonstrates
why Ubuntu is still light years behind Apple and Microsoft... Open
source is all well and good, but it cannot be that only developers can
install and upgrade it.

Yours, 
Alex B.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.63
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376
Date: Thu May 19 17:23:41 2016
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug ubiquity-2.21.63 ubuntu xenial

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Title:
  My upgrade from 14.04 was very buggy, so re-install necessary. It
  crashed.

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This seems like the biggest joke ever... only I'm not laughing. 
  Now I know why there's that saying "never touch a running system". 

  I got my self into a mess by upgrading my dual-boot 14.04 to 16.04. 
  Updated everything then chose to "upgrade". 

  From the very first start after the upgrade there was no task bar, no bash, only the desktop... the OS seemed very broken. 
  To search online for help, I clicked on an html file on my system, which started firefox. 

  Roughly one day later I gave up and decided to re-install 16.04 to replace the broken version. 
  Using the live version from a usb. 

  That attempt crashed... that is this report.

  The sad thing is that this is the type of experience that demonstrates
  why Ubuntu is still light years behind Apple and Microsoft... Open
  source is all well and good, but it cannot be that only developers can
  install and upgrade it.

  Yours, 
  Alex B.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.63
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.376
  Date: Thu May 19 17:23:41 2016
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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