problems with 10.04 upgrade to 12.04

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 10:20:34 UTC 2012


On 09/05/2012 05:13 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 11:42:08AM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 09:30:02AM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
>>> Ric Moore wrote:
>>>> What website are you running?? Drupal? WordPress? Or something custom? Ric
>>>
>>> Actually, thanks for that question. It prompted me to look at the site
>>> and it is running. Woohoo! That's the good news; sadly, it's supposed to
>>> be rebuilt every night to reflect the day's work and the scripts that do
>>> that are crashing as part of this upgrade foulup.
>>
>> Have you ever pastebin'ed the full output of the following commands?
>>
>>    sudo dpkg --configure -a
>>    sudo apt-get -f install
>>    sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Meanwhile I found the bug you originally filed (http://pad.lv/1045285)
> and the log files attached (screenlog.0 is especially interesting).
>
> The first error was
>
>    Setting up lxdm (0.4.1-0ubuntu6) ...
>    Installing new version of config file /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf ...
>    Installing new version of config file /etc/lxdm/Xsession ...
>    Installing new version of config file /etc/pam.d/lxdm ...
>    Installing new version of config file /etc/init/lxdm.conf ...
>    dpkg: error processing lxdm (--configure):
>     subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>    Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
>    No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
>    ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
>    Errors were encountered while processing:
>     lxdm
>
> It looks like the rest were just a cascade due to missing dependencies
> caused by the aborted upgrade because of that first error.
>
> First of all, what is a graphical display manager doing on a server?

I agree.
http://www.proxmox.com/ for the server install
then pick and chose the containers
http://www.turnkeylinux.org/
Canonical should be picking up on this. It's so dead easy. Ric



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