problems with 10.04 upgrade to 12.04

[Dave Howorth]

Dave Howorth wrote:
>>   apt-get install -o APT::Immediate-Configure=false -f

I've just posted the log from that command to the bug report

<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1045285/comments/36>

It finished with a whimper rather than a bang. The last line in the log
is just:

Processing triggers for libreoffice-common ...

I'm not quite sure where that leaves me and the system, so I won't do
anything else too radical whilst I investigate the state but I do see:

$ dpkg -l python
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                               Version
  Description
+++-==================================-==================================-====================================================================================
ii  python                             2.7.3-0ubuntu2
  interactive high-level object-oriented language (default version)

and vim works again, so I'm quite hopeful.

I noticed three oddities whilst it was working:

(1) It kept asking me about supplying a mysql root password. But the
system has the default root password listed in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf  So
it seems that some upgrade script(s) is/are confused.

(2) It muttered something about changing the way devices.map works but I
don't understand it immediately. Do I need to do anything?

(3) It complained:

Warning: XML::LibXML compiled against libxml2 20708, but runtime libxml2
is older 20706

Which suggests the installed perl modules were compiled against a
different version of the underlying libraries. Which I would normally
regard as borked! Is this a known issue?


I also see that /boot still only contains versions of the 2.6.32 kernel,
of which vmlinuz-2.6.32-42-generic is the most recent. So I guess the
upgrade to precise is not yet complete.

What's the next step? Run do-release-upgrade again?

Thanks again to everybody who's been helping me.
Dave