Upgrade Testing

[Elfy]

On 30/01/14 10:35, Robin wrote:
> No joy on my attempt to upgrade from a fully-updated 12.04 to 14.04 
> using 'update-manager -d -c'.
>
> It offered Trusty to upgrade to, told me about the requirements (in 
> terms of disk space), and estimated the time of download to be 6 
> minutes at my connection speed.
>
> After downloading the packages it got stuck on installation, 
> "configuring apt."  I let it go for hours just to see if it would 
> unlock itself and get going, but it was just frozen solid.  Hard 
> reboot failed.  Reinstalled and updated 12.04 with no trouble.
>
> I wish I could brag about upgrading to Trusty!  I've never even 
> attempted an upgrade before, always preferring a fresh install. But 
> hopefully something can be learned from my attempt at least.
>
> My computer is a Dell Dimension:
> Computer
> Processor 	Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.53GHz
> Memory 	506MB (339MB used)
> Operating System 	Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
> User Name 	robin (Robin)
> Date/Time 	Thu 30 Jan 2014 05:20:21 AM EST
> Display
> Resolution 	1280x1024 pixels
> OpenGL Renderer 	Unknown
> X11 Vendor 	The X.Org Foundation
> Multimedia
> Audio Adapter 	ICH4 - Intel ICH5
>
> Running Xubuntu 12,04 LTS:
> Version
> Kernel 	Linux 3.2.0-58-generic (i686)
> Compiled 	#88-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 3 17:40:43 UTC 2013
> C Library 	Unknown
> Default C Compiler 	GNU C Compiler version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 
> 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
> Distribution 	Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
> Current Session
> Computer Name 	robin-Dell-DE051
> User Name 	robin (Robin)
> Home Directory 	/home/robin
> Desktop Environment 	XFCE 4
>
>
>
> I hope this is helpful in some way for a first-time tester!
> -Robin
>
>
>
Thanks for going through that :)

I'd like more to see the result on the tracker ... I saw a thread on the 
forum, assume that's you - you really don't have to do all the wiki 
hardware stuff - as long as you've got an SSO account then you can 
report to the tracker.

-- 
Ubuntu Forum Council Member
Xubuntu QA Lead

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