problems upgrading 14.04 to 14.10 (configuration failures in sysv-rc & grub packages)

Wed Nov 5 10:41:17 UTC 2014

On 2014-11-04, Marius Gedminas wrote:

> Aptitude is not recommended for Ubuntu, try apt-get upgrade instead.

I'm making progress with this --- thanks for the advice.  But I don't
get the "aptitude is not recommended" thing: the upgrade just got
stuck on 'sudo apt-get upgrade with something like "the following 690
packages will be held back, 0 to install, 0 to remove"; running 'sudo
aptitude safe-upgrade' instead came up with a solution & is now
upgrading those packages.