ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 152, Issue 1

Sat Apr 1 16:26:21 UTC 2017

Thank you Peter and Kim for your help. 14.04 ok now and bug reported for
16.04. Thanks.

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>    1. 16.04 upgrade RIP. (Owen Branley)
>    2. Re: 16.04 upgrade RIP. (Peter Silva)
>    3. Re: 16.04 upgrade RIP. (Kim Briggs)
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> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:37:46 +0100
> From: Owen Branley <obranley at gmail.com>
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> Subject: 16.04 upgrade RIP.
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> I attempted to upgrade 14.04 to 16.04 today but it was unsuccessful. So now
> neither of them work. 13.04 still works but is a pale show of 14.04, patch
> 115.
>
> Screen messages include:-
>
> 1. "Could not install 'ca--certificates' The upgrade will continue but the
> 'ca-certificates' may not be in a working state. Please consider submitting
> a bug report about it.
> [triggers looping abandoned].  [close]
>
> 2. Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x????
>
> 3.Replace the customised configuration file '/etc/sane/dll.conf'? Replace?
>      Replaced!!
>
> 4. 'error in sharedoc'
>
> 5. Could not install upgrades. The upgrade has aborted. Your system could
> be in an unusable state.[TRUE]. A recovery will run now (dpkg -configure-a)
> [Close].
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> 6 Upgrade complete. The upgrade has completed but there were errors during
> the upgrade process. [Close]" end of messages.
>
> Please help if possible, thank you.
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> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17:59:34 -0500
> From: Peter Silva <peter at bsqt.homeip.net>
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> Subject: Re: 16.04 upgrade RIP.
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> one last resort strategy that can help:
>
> Alt-F1 ... hopefully get a line mode console.
> aptitude update
> aptitude dist-upgrade
>
> it may succeed, may fail, just keep doing it over and over again.
>
> once in a while, throw in:
> apt-get install -f
>
> sometimes it will end with a short list of one or two packages that it
> "can't" upgrade.  You get the same answer over and over again, where it
> saya it can't upgrade x, y, and z.
>
> try upgrading some subset of the ones listed:
>
> apt-get install y
>
> and that might break the look or dependency problem, then you just go back
> to the:
>
> aptitude update
> aptitude dist-upgrade
>
> (aptitude is better, but if you don't have it, use apt-get instead.)
>
> this method might get you through it, even though it is kind of ugly...
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Owen Branley <obranley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I attempted to upgrade 14.04 to 16.04 today but it was unsuccessful. So
> > now neither of them work. 13.04 still works but is a pale show of 14.04,
> > patch 115.
> >
> > Screen messages include:-
> >
> > 1. "Could not install 'ca--certificates' The upgrade will continue but
> the
> > 'ca-certificates' may not be in a working state. Please consider
> submitting
> > a bug report about it.
> > [triggers looping abandoned].  [close]
> >
> > 2. Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x????
> >
> > 3.Replace the customised configuration file '/etc/sane/dll.conf'?
> Replace?
> >      Replaced!!
> >
> > 4. 'error in sharedoc'
> >
> > 5. Could not install upgrades. The upgrade has aborted. Your system could
> > be in an unusable state.[TRUE]. A recovery will run now (dpkg
> -configure-a)
> > [Close].
> >
> > 6 Upgrade complete. The upgrade has completed but there were errors
> during
> > the upgrade process. [Close]" end of messages.
> >
> > Please help if possible, thank you.
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> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 23:33:22 -0400
> From: Kim Briggs <patiodragon at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: 16.04 upgrade RIP.
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> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 5:37 PM, Owen Branley <obranley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I attempted to upgrade 14.04 to 16.04 today but it was unsuccessful. So
> now
> > neither of them work. 13.04 still works but is a pale show of 14.04,
> patch
> > 115.
> >
> > Screen messages include:.....
>
> Hello,
>
> I had troubles with upgrades many moons ago.  I kindly suggest if you are
> confident in your backups, never do an upgrade.  Ever.  Format your drive
> while doing a new install.  Nothing is perfect and it never will be.  Too
> many variables are added when doing an upgrade.  Cheers.
>
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> http://kimbriggs.com
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