Fwd: Upgrade from 19.10 to 20.04 failed - upgrade process broken

[Liam Proven]

I am at a bit of a loss as to what's wrong here. Anyone got any ideas?

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From: Douglas Pollard <dougpol2 at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 at 5:20 pm
Subject: Re: Upgrade from 19.10 to 20.04 failed - upgrade process broken
To: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>


I burnt a DVD of 20.04 to reinstall over 19.10. It crashed my Hp 2yeare
old Hp gaming computer and and It will not start from a DVD now.and has
no operating system.   It will not allow me to choose a  DVD iso file
the dvd runs about 3 seconds and shuts down. I can't open the bios to
see if there is something changed there. I don't know whether the dvd
was corrupted in burning or whether the ISO file that I down loaded was
corrupted. I installed Ubuntu Studio 1910 On my old Dell Optipex 780 and
worked fine then I down loaded another 20.04 iso burned it and did
check sum. It would not load and now I cannot use a DVD ISO file to
imstall on that computer either, But Studio runs fine in 19.10 edition
Other than being a bit slow and clunky for editing HD video 1920 x 1080
but does work.  I may take the Hp to geek squad and let them install
windows 10 if they can just to get it working  as that is what came from
the factory. Then I can go back to Ubuntu. I wish I could give more
information But at 86 years old this head of mine is getting low on
information. My conclusion is the computer cannot see the DVD.


On 5/8/20 6:17 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 02:56, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So, the upgrade process, which appeared to have been formalised and
>> finalised, appears to be buggy.
> I upgraded Xubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 on my 2008 Macbook yesterday. Went
> through fine.
>
> I saw 1 transient dependency error but it went through all on its own.
>
> Sadly it did not fix an existing login problem; in fact it made it
> worse. However, now, there is a documented fix.
>
> (What that is is irrelevant to this discussion, I think.)
>
> I haven't tried to upgrade my only 19.10 installation because I intend
> to reformat and start over.
>
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