[Bug 1892522] Re: apt dist-upgrade "crashes" two times

[Fritz Hudnut]

Ran "configure" and then "fix broken install" . . . the ran thru apt
dist-upgrade and it appeared "OK" . . . then I ran autoremove and
autoclean and again ran apt dist-upgrade . . . it showed "52 packages"
to upgrade . . . half way through again the GUI crashed into blackness.

This time took a full minute before mouse came back . . . and back into
GUI . . . .

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Title:
  apt dist-upgrade "crashes" two times

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

Bug description:
  Running a standard "apt dist-upgrade" in U-MATE 20.10 via GUI console
  & part way through suddenly the screen flashes black and a brief TTY-
  like dmesg data shows "[Failed] and a bunch of data before going black
  again . . . .  Seems like the GUI was crashed . . . .  After a minute
  the mouse cursor came back and then the log-in window.

  I logged in and saw the "error" applet up on the toolbar . . . saying
  "possibly unmet dependencies" . . . launched the console again and it
  said, "dpkg was interrupted, run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a'" . . . so
  I ran that, and a few errors on "libreoffice" showed up . . . it was
  running through the items again . . . and then the same crash of the
  GUI happened again . . . ???

  Haven't seen anything quite like this in some 13 years of messing with
  linux . . . GUI crashes while running an apt update?????

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:20.10.9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-42.46-generic 5.4.44
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu44
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: MATE
  Date: Fri Aug 21 08:24:21 2020
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-01-20 (214 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Alpha amd64 (20200119)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: dist-upgrade
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2020-03-18T12:04:25.397274

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