Upgrade problem caused by many mistakes and broken packages.

Sat Apr 27 04:04:54 UTC 2024

Sorry to hear about your issues; keep in mind that this list provides
user-to-user support; most developers do not read this ML.

If you want devels to read about your issues, please file a bug report and
attach those files to it. LTS to LTS upgrades are supported once the
24.24.1 version is released, and this would be a great time to do a fresh
install, once you have done some of your equipment upgrades. Piece-by-piece
sounds very complicated, and is obviously too fragile to accomplish your
goals.

Again, sorry to hear about your difficulties with Kubuntu.

All the best,

Valorie

On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 1:21 PM Bastiaan Gijsbertus Roufs <
basroufs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Upgrade problem caused by many mistakes and broken packages.
>
> Hello Everybody.
>
> Only a few weeks ago, I installed Kubuntu 22.04.1 LTS at my Lenovo
> Thinkpad X230 i5, 4GB RAM and 250 GB SSD at present. In a few weeks from
> now, I'll go to a computer repair shop that will add an extra SSD of 1
> GB and 2 DDR 3, 1600 Mhz memory banks - with a view to getting 16 GB RAM.
>
> My idea was the following....
>
> STEP 1.
> Prepare a system with the all the packages and languages modules I need
> for 10 languages - spell and grammar check, etc.
>
> STEP 2.
> Upgrade from Kubuntu 22.04.4 LTS to Kubuntu 24.04 LTS.
>
> STEP 3.
> Prepare a data only backup via Backintime or Luckybackup.
>
> STEP 3A.
> Prepare a system backup via Timeshift. However, this is too complicated
> for now - I'll start using Timeshift after getting the new 1 TB SSD. The
> old 250 GB SSD, I want to use for the Timeshift system-backup. My
> practice experience makes me clear that Timeshift is NOT good for
> migration from one disk or one laptop to another.
>
> STEP 3B.
> Prepare migration from the smaller to the bigger SSD: via a compressed
> CloneZilla ISO image of the whole SSD at a Ventoy USB. Like this, I
> wanted to port all the packages, language modules, etc. to the bigger,
> new SSD.
>
> STEP 3C.
> After getting the new SSD and RAM memory.... Installing the whole system
> and all data from the CloneZilla ISO.
>
> COMPLICATIONS EVER SINCE YESTERDAY, THURSDAY 25-04-2024.
> After installing Backintime, for the data only backup, the system does
> not 'see' anymore my 4 TB external hard disks, formatted in EXT4. Also a
> 2 TB USB stick formatted in FAT32 can not be used any more. Note - I am
> using USB 3.0 ports.....
> So, I uninstalled again Backintime. And I copied some temporal data
> backups to Wetransfer.
>
> Yesterday, Kubuntu 24.04 LTS has been released. However, I do not manage
> to upgrade to it. That's why, I did several attempts to upgrade to
> Kubuntu 23.10, prior to upgrading to the newest LTS version. However,
> because of my ppa backports, I was not able to do an upgrade.
> So, I have removed the backports and also Flatpak - via the package
> managers at my system.
>
> However, those efforts did not help. Several attempts to upgrade to
> 23.10 ended up like this:
>
> «(...)
> bas at Camino:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade -m desktop
> Checking for a new Ubuntu release
> ERROR:root:getting the encoding failed
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeView.py",
> line 39, in <module>
>      locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
>    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/locale.py", line 620, in setlocale
>      return _setlocale(category, locale)
> locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
>
> = Welcome to Ubuntu 23.10 'Mantic Minotaur' =
>
> The Ubuntu team is proud to announce Ubuntu 23.10 'Mantic Minotaur'.
>
> (...ETC.....)
>
> Could not determine the upgrade
>
> An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.
>
> If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the
> command 'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a terminal. If
> you want to investigate this yourself the log files in
> '/var/log/dist-upgrade' will contain details about the upgrade.
> Specifically, look at 'main.log' and 'apt.log'.
>
>
> Restoring original system state
>
> Aborting
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> bas at Camino:~$
> (...)»
>
> I have been checking main.log and apt.log as well as some other logs in
> '/var/log/dist-upgrade'
> Main problem - too many broken packages and depencies.
>
> Now, I am considering two options:
>
> OPTION 1.
> Trying to use the Kubuntu 22.04.4 LTS ISO at my Ventoy stick to fix the
> many broken packages.
>
> OPTION 2.
> Downloading the Kubuntu 24.04 LTS ISO and putting it at the same Ventoy
> stick, after which I fresh-install this new LTS.
>
> About option 1 - is there a simple and quick way to fix the broken
> packages? If not, I take recourse to option 2.
>
> If you are interested, I can provide you with a few long error reports
> of '/var/log/dist-upgrade' - notable main.log and apt.log.
>
> Yours.
>
> Bas.
>
>
>
>
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>
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