12.10 install problem

[Nicholas Skaggs]

Gabor, sorry to hear of your troubles, but glad you worked it out. I 
would encourage you to try and reproduce the issue and then use 
ubuntu-bug to file a bug against update-manager if indeed you find an 
issue. If you want to avoid installing, try booting from a livecd and 
see if you can trigger a similar problem. Also, are you checking 
"install updates" during the installation?


Nicholas

On 01/16/2013 07:11 AM, Gabor Toth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought I write here as I can not exactly file a bug on the case.
>
> I have done recently two fresh installs of Ubuntu 12.10 - one one a 
> laptop (ACER Aspire) and another one on a Desktop computer.
>
> In both cases I run into the following: the install itself was going 
> smooth without any problems.  (Minor cosmetic problem of not 
> displaying the message when restarting after install to take out the 
> CD and close the CD rack.)
> However after restarting after install problems arose.  The update 
> manager came up saying that he has 234 or so updates to install. 
> Naturally I gave a go ahead and punched in the pw as asked for. When 
> hitting Enter on the pw the update manager disappears. Nowhere to 
> scene.  However when I try to run any other package program it says 
> that the library is locked.  Seems like the update manager silently 
> crashed without any notice.  I have then restarted system (didn't want 
> to fiddle around unlocking the directory and so on - might be a 
> mistake though) and when comes up from restart, the package database 
> is broken in need of repair. In the case of the laptop that was easy 
> and run package manager to fix that.  Right after however while 
> installing language packs that first quit while in mid installing 
> language packs and when restarted hung.  After a later restart worked 
> fine and managed to install the desired packs.
>
> In the case of the Desktop computer something more sinister happened: 
> the USB mouse became unresponsive, and also the compiz crashed a 
> couple of times.  I could not make the mouse working (tried with other 
> USB mice too and no joy either) so I have re-installed system again, 
> overwriting the previous install.  Went smooth and in this case didn't 
> use the update manager to update packages but went for apt-get update 
> and upgrade and all went smooth.  The systems is up and running like a 
> charm.
>
> I wonder if there is an issue with install/update manager since it was 
> two cases on totally different architecture.  Both x64 systems.  Both 
> installed from DVD, same DVD, that have worked on other laptop without 
> problem.  Seems the issue is not always there but 2 times out of 3 
> recent installs I have done.
>
> Anyone any idea?  Can not reproduce the case right now since I am not 
> about to install anything.  I can try later on when I get another 
> computer to install (expecting some within the week.)
>
> Best,
>
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