Upgrade from Warty to Breezy problems (was How do I know which release I have?)

[Kipton Moravec]

Man have I been having problems the last few days.

I am guessing it is not a good idea to upgrade from Warty directly to
Breezy without upgrading to whatever the between distribution's name is
first.

The upgrade stopped with problems. And after I tried a few things I
thought I was in the clear until I rebooted. 

I got an error starting X windows and got the equivalent of the blue
screen of death.  Unfortunately there were no error messages with it.

I think this problem was with NVIDA built in graphics card on my
motherboard.  But I had no network, no gnome, only the command line
which would not let me log in as a super user.  I have only one password
and it was not accepting it.

Fortunately I had another PC I could access the web with.  And started
searching for the problem.  And finding out about sudo apt-get commands
and sudo dpkg --configure -a and sudo apt-get -f install

The first thing to come back was my network connection. Which meant that
along with what was originally loaded for the upgrade I was able to get
stuff that must have been missed.

I did not log everything I did but after about 4-5 hours over two days,
I got the gnome desktop back.

Evolution did not come back, which is what I use UBUNTU the most for. I
can't lose my year of emails.  I pulled up some application, and there
were two Evolutions for the menu.  One was faded and the other was
selected. They looked alike to me, so I selected the other. when I got
out evolution would work from the pull down menu, but not from the top
line shortcut.

Synaptic still says I have broken packages.  Unfortunately the error
message is long and I can't cut or copy from the Synaptic "Applying
Changes" "Terminal Output" window to the email or search engine (Hint
that may be a good feature to add) and my typing is not really fast.
Here goes:

------------------------------

Preconfigureing packages ...
(reading database ... 89407 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libopenh323-1.15.3c2
(from .../libopenh323-1.5.3c2_1.15.6-1_i386.deb ...
dpkg: error
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libopenh323-1.5.3c2_1.15.6-1_i386.deb
(--unpack)
trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libopenh323.so.1', which is also in
package libopenh323-1.13.2
Unpacking ubuntu-docs (from .../ubuntu-docs_5.10.6_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ubuntu-docs_5.10.6_all.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/index.html', which
is also in package ubuntu-artwork
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libopenh323-1.5.3c2_1.15.6-1_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/ubuntu-docs_5.10.6_all.deb

Failed to apply all changes! Scroll in the terminal buffer to see what
went wrong.

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What is wrong and how do I fix it?  

I do know it is not a good idea to delete the two files it can't
overwrite, because I came up with a blank window in gnome.

The other thing broken is the Evolution Icon.
How do I fix the Evolution Icon on the top line? It says 
Cannot launch icon
Details: Failed to execute child process "evolution-2.0" (no such file
or directory) 

I do not think I am completely installed to Breezy yet until I can get
Synaptic to finish.


On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 08:29 -0500, Zach wrote:
> I went to wiki.ubuntu.com and searched for "upgrade" and came up with
> this informative article:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BreezyUpgradeNotes?highlight=%28upgrade%29
> 
> To upgrade in place just follow the instructions for changing your
> repositories.  There is no need to download the cd.
> 
> I have to say that I have never had an upgrade go perfectly smoothly,
> but this is partly because I mess around with the default
> configuration a lot and also install a lot of packages from third
> party repositories.  However I've never had an upgrade break the
> system so badly that I couldn't fix it.  Usually I just run into some
> sort of complicated dependency scenario where packages can't be
> upgraded because other packages are depending on them which haven't
> been upgraded yet.  Usually I just do a complete remove on the
> offending package via Synaptic or apt-get then the upgrade will
> proceed.  Just don't reboot your system until the upgrade is completed
> and is happy.  Then at the end make sure Ubuntu-Desktop is installed
> to catch any remaining packages that might have been missed.

-- 
Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com>