24.04 Upgrade Issues

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 at 14:26, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> The standard message that is displayed when NEW software is available
> asking if you wish to upgrade now or later.

Ah, OK. And you did the GUI-based version upgrade?

> The screen went blank and the system rebooted. No message, nothing but
> when it stopped I had a blinking cursor on the screen, NOTHING else.

No prompt, no GRUB, no bootloader, nothing?

No change if you power-cycled it?

> 1st: sudo apt --fix-broken-install
> 2nd: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

OK.

#2 should really be:

sudo apt full-upgrade -y

It may still be worth doing that now. It does a more thorough job.

> That ran to completion leaving me with a blinking cursor on the screen.

As in, in the terminal after the usual prompt?

> > What does this mean? What's "did a manual upgrade"? What did you type?
> > What happened?
>
> See above...

Aha.

The 2 commands above will not _upgrade_ Ubuntu from one version to the
next. They will only stay on the current version but update all the
programs to the latest releases _in the same version_.

> >> I poked around
> >
> > At what, where, how?
>
> Various combinations of ctrl, alt, F1 ... F7

Ah, right.

> >> and finally was presented
> >> with a GUI login.

So it was there, but the machine was on the wrong virtual console?

You didn't log in to the console in text mode and "poke around"
reinstalling things?

> I have no idea which one worked.
> >
> > How? What desktop? What display server? What GPU? What drivers?
> >
> >> After doing a login from there I was able to get all
> >> my workspaces up(4) and several applications scattered around them.

In which desktop? Just curious...

> I am sorry but I did not take any notes. I am using the default desktop.
> How do I find out what one that is? If you need that.

It depends on which version of Ubuntu but for any recent release from
the last decade that means GNOME.

Which usually has an infinite scrolling strip of virtual desktops, not
just 4, which is what confused me. But I do not use GNOME myself.

> I have NOT done a reboot to see what happens....

I suggest doing the full upgrade I mention above then rebooting.


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