Upgrade Testing - "could not install upgrades"
Alejandro Méndez A.
twistx77 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 08:12:31 UTC 2014
Hi Richard,
I did copy everything important before upgrading, I've alredy learnt that
lesson :).
I will be installing 14.04, as I said, the 17th with the official release.
Regards!
2014-04-09 20:46 GMT+02:00 Richard Elkins <richard.elkins at gmail.com>:
> Alejandro,
>
> If this is your work/production machine, I would advise you NOT to perform
> upgrade *testing* on the actual hardware. You can install a VirtualBox
> "machine" to simulate this effectively. Yes, wait until the release is
> final and please take care to first backup data to off-line media (E.g. USB
> drive). Always, periodically, backup data to off-line devices. Sorry if I
> sound like a "mother hen".
>
> I personally use actual bare machines that I have because they are
> spare/available and wiping them out does not bother me. Also, there is
> value in performing upgrade testing on a bare machine as opposed to a VM
> (slightly different test sub-cases).
>
> Good luck,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
> On 04/09/2014 01:37 PM, Alejandro Méndez A. wrote:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> I used the `update-manager -d' method.
>
> My hardware is a Samsung laptop i7, Ati graphics, 1TB HDD.
>
> I did it in this machine, is not a vbox image.
>
> There has to be something with the software I had installed or runnig. I
> closed everything but maybe somthing was running in the background.
>
> I will wait for 14.04 to officially come out and do a clean install
> since I can't mess up this computer because this is the machine I use to
> work.
>
> If there is something I can give you from my case to help, just ask.
>
> Thanks anyway.
>
>
>
>
> 2014-04-09 18:59 GMT+02:00 Richard Elkins <richard.elkins at gmail.com>:
>
>> Alejandro,
>>
>> How did you upgrade: `update-manager -d` or booting an ISO image and
>> select the upgrade option? Please specify which method.
>> What hardware are you using?
>> Were you testing against actual hardware or in a virtual box?
>>
>> Outline for upgrade using update-manager against 13.10:
>> 1 - Do a ground-up install of 13.10 from CD or thumb-drive to the HDD/SSD
>> or use a virtual box item (less disruptive).
>> 2 - Bring 13.10 installation up-to-date.
>> 3 - In a terminal window, start `update-manager -d`.
>> 4 - After a long update-manager run, did it work or did you see failure?
>> If failure, report it against update-manager.
>>
>> Outline for upgrade using 14.04 ISO image against 13.10:
>> 1 - Do a ground-up install of 13.10 from CD or thumb-drive to the HDD/SSD
>> or use a virtual box item (less disruptive).
>> 2 - Bring 13.10 installation up-to-date.
>> 3 - Boot the 14.04 ISO image and perform an upgrade of the existing 13.10
>> installation.
>> 4 - When complete, did it work or did you see failure? If failure,
>> report it against ubiquity.
>>
>> The 2 outlines for upgrading 12.04.xx are essentially the same.
>>
>> I did both methods (update-manager and ubiquity/ISO) and had no issues
>> with starting with 12.04.xx or 13.10.
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>> On 04/09/2014 09:29 AM, Alejandro Méndez A. wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've tried to update from 13.10 to contribute but I haven't had Tiago's
>> luck. I've had some errors regarding gnumeric, xscreensaver, libc6.
>>
>> Then another error said Could not install the upgrades
>>
>> The upgrade has aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state. A
>> recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a)
>>
>> I press closed and immediately another message said that the update was
>> complete but there were errors. I restarted and the lock screen have
>> changed to the 14.04 one, then I got an error to report.
>>
>> Now the machine works but the Xubuntu menu is the same as 13.10 and so
>> far I haven't found any other problem.
>>
>> How could I finish the upgrade. It didn't finish it completed three
>> quarters only.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>> 2014-04-09 16:20 GMT+02:00 Elfy <ub.untu at btinternet.com>:
>>
>>> On 09/04/14 14:55, Tiago Ribeiro wrote:
>>>
>>> You welcome, Bruno. I just want to help :)
>>>
>>> And yes. I did the proper report in the path you gave me and with the
>>> machine specs.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Tiago Ribeiro
>>>
>>> Thank you :)
>>>
>>>
>>> Elfy
>>>
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