Upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 LTS (BORKED)

[Basil Chupin]

On 13/09/2010 16:02, Gilles Gravier wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 13/09/2010 03:13, clintin at linuxmail.org wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au>
>> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Sent: Sun, Sep 12, 2010 6:52 pm
>> Subject: Re: Upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 LTS (BORKED)
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>> On 13/09/2010 06:42,clintin at linuxmail.org  <mailto:clintin at linuxmail.org>  wrote:
>> >  I started this process about 4 hours ago and it is currently "hung" on
>> >  "Configuring dbus", the last message is the "system user 'messagebus'
>> >  already exists. Exiting." With about 19 minutes remaining.  Checking
>> >  top, init and evolution-data seems to be "railing" the processor with
>> >  the upgrade process being in this state now for over 20 minutes.
>> >
>> >  Any ideas on how to complete the process without ending up with a
>> >  crashed system?  Control-C is responsive in the upgrade window but it
>> >  warns about ending up with a crashed system as well.
>> >
>> >  In the past I have done a Ubuntu istribution upgrade in the past,
>> >  notably 6.06 LTS to 8.04 LTS and it worked flawlessly.  8.04 LTS to
>> >  10.04 is conspicuously totally borked.
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>> >Here is what the documentation for Ubuntu states regarding updrades -
>> did you read it?
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>> >QUOTE
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>> >An upgrade is the process of going from an earlier version of Ubuntu to
>> a newer version of Ubuntu with an installed system. An example of this
>> would be going from Ubuntu 7.10 to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. To avoid damaging
>> your running system, upgrading should only be done from one release to
>> the next release (e.g. Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 9.10) or from one LTS
>> release to the next (e.g. Ubuntu 6.06LTS to Ubuntu 8.04LTS).
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>> This is what I did, 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS and yes, I did read the documentation.
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>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades#Network  Upgrade for Ubuntu Desktops (Recommended)
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>> Upgrade from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS
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>> Network Upgrade for Ubuntu Desktops (Recommended)
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> Which means you did this : "Because Kubuntu 8.04 was not an LTS 
> release and has passed its end of life, direct upgrades to Kubuntu 
> 10.04 LTS from Kubuntu 8.04 are not supported. Please follow the 
> directions for upgrading Kubuntu 8.04 to 9.10 
> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KarmicUpgrades/Kubuntu/8.04> first, 
> then follow the directions above for upgrades from Kubuntu 9.10."
>
> You upgraded fist to 9.10... then to 10.04?
>
> Gilles

You know, all this is getting hairier and hairier.....or, in the 
vernacular, more bloody confusing....

Abut time people at Canonical took note of this otherwise they will get 
into the same mess plaguing them as 'plaguing' some other distros.

Look at this:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

then look here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/

then look here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickReleaseSchedule

When you look at the last URL, where is it mentioned that 10.04.1 is LTS 
- and what is 10.10 supposed to be?

BC

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