Upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 LTS (BORKED)

[Tom H]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Pastor JW
<pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org> wrote:
> On Sunday, September 12, 2010 11:02:21 pm Gilles Gravier wrote:
>> >
>> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades#Network Upgrade for
>> > Ubuntu Desktops (Recommended)
>> >
>> > Upgrade from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS
>> >
>> > ----------------------------------
>> >
>> > Network Upgrade for Ubuntu Desktops (Recommended)
>>
>> 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?
>
> Because of the above foolishness regarding LTS releases, I merely booted into
> Gnome which is otherwise never used around here, performed the 8.04 to 10.04
> upgrade and then rebooted into my new Kubuntu 10.04.  There never should have
> been any part of an LTS release not really a LTS part.  It just confuses users
> and causes bad mouthing of the product.  It is only a good way to drive away
> users.

You wasted your time booting into GNOME (although I would have gone
into single user mode as I said earlier).

I'm amazed that Kubuntu 8.04 wasn't an LTS release. There must be some
KDE-related apps/libs/whatever whose security updates weren't meant to
be supported for 3 years...

I doubt that had you run the upgrade manager (gui or cli) in Kubuntu
that you wouldn't have been able to do an 8.04 to 10.04 upgrade. The
upgrade manager app basically changes the sources.list and does an
upgrade (with some steps, etc, I'm sure). It's a python script, IIRC,
and a person speaking python could most probably modify it to do, for
example, an 8.10 to 10.04 direct upgrade.