<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Sorry to hear about your issues; keep in mind that this list provides user-to-user support; most developers do not read this ML. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Again, sorry to hear about your difficulties with Kubuntu. </div><div><br></div><div>All the best, </div><div><br></div><div>Valorie</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 1:21 PM Bastiaan Gijsbertus Roufs <<a href="mailto:basroufs@gmail.com">basroufs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Upgrade problem caused by many mistakes and broken packages.<br>
<br>
Hello Everybody.<br>
<br>
Only a few weeks ago, I installed Kubuntu 22.04.1 LTS at my Lenovo <br>
Thinkpad X230 i5, 4GB RAM and 250 GB SSD at present. In a few weeks from <br>
now, I'll go to a computer repair shop that will add an extra SSD of 1 <br>
GB and 2 DDR 3, 1600 Mhz memory banks - with a view to getting 16 GB RAM.<br>
<br>
My idea was the following....<br>
<br>
STEP 1.<br>
Prepare a system with the all the packages and languages modules I need <br>
for 10 languages - spell and grammar check, etc.<br>
<br>
STEP 2.<br>
Upgrade from Kubuntu 22.04.4 LTS to Kubuntu 24.04 LTS.<br>
<br>
STEP 3.<br>
Prepare a data only backup via Backintime or Luckybackup.<br>
<br>
STEP 3A.<br>
Prepare a system backup via Timeshift. However, this is too complicated <br>
for now - I'll start using Timeshift after getting the new 1 TB SSD. The <br>
old 250 GB SSD, I want to use for the Timeshift system-backup. My <br>
practice experience makes me clear that Timeshift is NOT good for <br>
migration from one disk or one laptop to another.<br>
<br>
STEP 3B.<br>
Prepare migration from the smaller to the bigger SSD: via a compressed <br>
CloneZilla ISO image of the whole SSD at a Ventoy USB. Like this, I <br>
wanted to port all the packages, language modules, etc. to the bigger, <br>
new SSD.<br>
<br>
STEP 3C.<br>
After getting the new SSD and RAM memory.... Installing the whole system <br>
and all data from the CloneZilla ISO.<br>
<br>
COMPLICATIONS EVER SINCE YESTERDAY, THURSDAY 25-04-2024.<br>
After installing Backintime, for the data only backup, the system does <br>
not 'see' anymore my 4 TB external hard disks, formatted in EXT4. Also a <br>
2 TB USB stick formatted in FAT32 can not be used any more. Note - I am <br>
using USB 3.0 ports.....<br>
So, I uninstalled again Backintime. And I copied some temporal data <br>
backups to Wetransfer.<br>
<br>
Yesterday, Kubuntu 24.04 LTS has been released. However, I do not manage <br>
to upgrade to it. That's why, I did several attempts to upgrade to <br>
Kubuntu 23.10, prior to upgrading to the newest LTS version. However, <br>
because of my ppa backports, I was not able to do an upgrade.<br>
So, I have removed the backports and also Flatpak - via the package <br>
managers at my system.<br>
<br>
However, those efforts did not help. Several attempts to upgrade to <br>
23.10 ended up like this:<br>
<br>
«(...)<br>
bas@Camino:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade -m desktop<br>
Checking for a new Ubuntu release<br>
ERROR:root:getting the encoding failed<br>
Traceback (most recent call last):<br>
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeView.py", <br>
line 39, in <module><br>
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")<br>
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/locale.py", line 620, in setlocale<br>
return _setlocale(category, locale)<br>
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting<br>
<br>
= Welcome to Ubuntu 23.10 'Mantic Minotaur' =<br>
<br>
The Ubuntu team is proud to announce Ubuntu 23.10 'Mantic Minotaur'.<br>
<br>
(...ETC.....)<br>
<br>
Could not determine the upgrade<br>
<br>
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.<br>
<br>
If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the<br>
command 'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a terminal. If<br>
you want to investigate this yourself the log files in<br>
'/var/log/dist-upgrade' will contain details about the upgrade.<br>
Specifically, look at 'main.log' and 'apt.log'.<br>
<br>
<br>
Restoring original system state<br>
<br>
Aborting<br>
Reading package lists... Done<br>
Building dependency tree... Done<br>
Reading state information... Done<br>
bas@Camino:~$<br>
(...)»<br>
<br>
I have been checking main.log and apt.log as well as some other logs in <br>
'/var/log/dist-upgrade'<br>
Main problem - too many broken packages and depencies.<br>
<br>
Now, I am considering two options:<br>
<br>
OPTION 1.<br>
Trying to use the Kubuntu 22.04.4 LTS ISO at my Ventoy stick to fix the <br>
many broken packages.<br>
<br>
OPTION 2.<br>
Downloading the Kubuntu 24.04 LTS ISO and putting it at the same Ventoy <br>
stick, after which I fresh-install this new LTS.<br>
<br>
About option 1 - is there a simple and quick way to fix the broken <br>
packages? If not, I take recourse to option 2.<br>
<br>
If you are interested, I can provide you with a few long error reports <br>
of '/var/log/dist-upgrade' - notable main.log and apt.log.<br>
<br>
Yours.<br>
<br>
Bas.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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Rijksweg 66a<br>
NL-6585 AG Mook<br>
+31 6 446 835 10<br>
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<br>
Mook ligt ca. 10 km. ten zuiden van Nijmegen en 10 km. ten oosten van de Duitse grens.<br>
Uitspraak -ou- in achternaam «Roufs»: zoals in «bouwen».<br>
<br>
Mook is about 10 km. south of Nijmegen and 10 km west of the German border.<br>
Pronunciatiation -ou- family name «Roufs»: like in «about».<br>
<br>
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