Upgrade problem caused by many mistakes and broken packages.

Sat Apr 27 08:27:37 UTC 2024

Hello Valorie and others.

On 27/04/2024 06:04, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> Sorry to hear about your issues; keep in mind that this list provides 
> user-to-user support; most developers do not read this ML.

I do not know what «ML» is. However, I get your point.

>
> If you want devels to read about your issues, please file a bug report 
> and attach those files to it.

Good idea, I want to do this before making a fresh install with Kubuntu 
24.04 at my system.

After each failed upgrade attempt, the last lines of the terminal read 
like this:

«(....)

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'.

(...)»

Is this the right way to submit a bug report in this situation?

Is it possible to attach a zip file with  ALL the reports in the 
directory /var/log/dist-upgrade?

For the bug report, I can use an adapted version of the story I 
submitted yesterday to this forum.

> 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.

I agree with you. Already today, I want to do a fresh install of Kubuntu 
24.04 LTS - because the system does not enable me anymore to put backups 
at external HD's or USB sticks.

However, before doing so, I want to submit the bug report.

Note, Valorie and other developers......... Go to the download sites....

https://kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/

https://kubuntu.org/alternative-downloads/

I have a strong preference for a Bittorrent download, because it is more 
quick and reliable. However, when clicking at the KTorrent link for 
Kubuntu 24.04 LTS, I get this non-result:

https://kubuntu.org/alternative-downloads/_wp_link_placeholder

Is it possible for you or one of the other site administrators to fix 
this problem?

I have tried to download the ISO in the regular way. However, the .iso 
file I got this morning does not pass the SHA256 checksum test.

Now, I am downloading it again in the same way, for lack of a BitTorrent 
link that is functional. I really want to make today a fresh install - I 
cannot wait for the hardware upgrade, cause the system that is at my 
laptop now, is simply not functional anymore.

>
> Again, sorry to hear about your difficulties with Kubuntu.

I hope to hear from you again with a reply at this message.

>
> All the best,

Thanks for your feedback.

Yours.

Bas.

>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     ====
>     Bas G. Roufs MA
>     Rijksweg 66a
>     NL-6585 AG Mook
>     +31 6 446 835 10
>     BasRoufs at gmail.com
>
>     Mook ligt ca. 10 km. ten zuiden van Nijmegen en 10 km. ten oosten
>     van de Duitse grens.
>     Uitspraak -ou- in achternaam «Roufs»: zoals in «bouwen».
>
>     Mook is about 10 km. south of Nijmegen and 10 km west of the
>     German border.
>     Pronunciatiation -ou- family name «Roufs»: like in «about».
>
>
>     -- 
>     kubuntu-users mailing list
>     kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>     Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
>     https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users
>
>
>
> -- 
> she/her. "Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see 
> yourself running with them." - Marcus Aurelius
>
>
>
-- 
====
Bas G. Roufs MA
Rijksweg 66a
NL-6585 AG Mook
+31 6 446 835 10
BasRoufs at gmail.com

Mook ligt ca. 10 km. ten zuiden van Nijmegen en 10 km. ten oosten van de Duitse grens.
Uitspraak -ou- in achternaam «Roufs»: zoals in «bouwen».

Mook is about 10 km. south of Nijmegen and 10 km west of the German border.
Pronunciatiation -ou- family name «Roufs»: like in «about».
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/attachments/20240427/8f615be1/attachment-0001.html>