update to ubuntu 15 failed..

[Petter Adsen]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 08:09:54 +0200
robert rottermann <robert at redcor.ch> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I tried to upgrade to the newest ubuntu version.
> The upgrade process stopped in the middle.
> Now after rebooting the computer an attempt to do any cleanup or
> upgrade results in the following:
> what can I do?

This might not be what you want to hear, but if the upgrade stopped
half-way and you have rebooted, you will _probably_ be better off with
saving your data and doing a clean install. Or restore from the backup
you made before doing the upgrade (you _did_ do a backup, didn't you?)

Even if you can recover from the problem dpkg is throwing up now, your
system will most likely be in a quite inconsistent state, and there
will be other things to clean up. The _easy_ way out is a restore or a
clean install.

You could also take a look at the man page for apt-get, particularly
the "-f" parameter, but it might not be able to get you out of this
mess.

Good luck either way.

Petter

> thanks
> robert
> ps: I messed with python before ..
> 
>   No apport report written because the error message indicates its a
> followup error from a previous failure.
>                                                            Errors
> were encountered while processing:
>   update-notifier-common
>   update-notifier
>   ubuntu-desktop
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> root at chrissy:/home/robert# apt-get autoremove
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 3 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up update-notifier-common (3.160) ...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader", line 24,
> in <module> import debian.deb822
> ImportError: No module named debian.deb822
> dpkg: error processing package update-notifier-common (--configure):
>   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
> status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
> update-notifier: update-notifier depends on update-notifier-common (=
> 3.160); however: Package update-notifier-common is not configured yet.
> 
> dpkg: error processing package update-notifier (--configure):
>   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-desktop:
>   ubuntu-desktop depends on update-notifier; however:
>    Package update-notifier is not configured yet.
> 
> dpkg: error processing package ubuntu-desktop (--configure):
>   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> No apport report written because the error message indicates its a
> followup error from a previous failure.
> No apport report written because the error message indicates its a
> followup error from a previous failure.
>                                                            Errors
> were encountered while processing:
>   update-notifier-common
>   update-notifier
>   ubuntu-desktop
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> 



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