[Bug 373972] [NEW] upgrade to 9.04 from within 8.10 borked

[Saverio J Marasco (Sam)]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: upgrade-system

I was working in Ubuntu 8.10. I always download updates asap. Then I saw the message " a new release 9.04 available, do you want To upgrade ?" (paraphrased). I answered affirmative and went through the upgrade process. When a dialog box appeared wanting to restart system I did so. My boot menu now said 9.04 rather n 8.10 (ie Grub was working).
However when I clicked on the first choice (standard) the screen flashed 3 times (2 was normal for earlier versions).
Usually on the third "tryy" I would ger familiar brown login screen.

In this case 9.04 booted with the boot splash screen and animated bar
underneath but it came up with a dark 3/8" (ewag) strip at the screen
top with pink dots and lines scattered thru it. It flashed the third
time and then the stripe was repeated along with an overlapping row of
circular Ubuntu logos and the word Ubuntu repeatedly across the screen.
Under that were non uniform green dashes. The Ubunto words and logos
were fuzzy to the point of being almost illegible. The 3 finger salute
did nothing. But tapping the power key once eventually got the Ubunto
shutdown splash with animated bar..

I tried rebooting and used the repair mode to attempt to fix packages
and the X-server. I am just learnng the command line stuff. It is a bit
different that Sco Openserver, but blessedly not as archaic.

essentially nothing worked, so HELP (:-) There does not seem to be a way to repair a botched install from an install CD. I did try the alt-F2 and other suggestions (alt install cd) but everything wants to rewrite the whole partition and blow away my data. Sigh.
Sam Marasco  sammorxman at yahoo.com

** Affects: upgrade-system (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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upgrade to 9.04 from within 8.10 borked
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