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<span class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u b"><b>Current situation with
Xubuntu 16.04 upgrades</b></span>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2326"><span class="">As promised
earlier, this is where we stand currently with upgrading </span><span
class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">–</span><span class=""> note
that the tests we have undertaken so far have for the most part
only been in virtual machines, though see bug reported by one of
our testers on hardware [1]</span><span
class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">.</span></div>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2285"><span
class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">1) Upgrading from 15.10 to
16.04 works</span><span class="author-g-tkgsbwca10vmw9mc"> using
</span><span class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">any method</span><span
class="author-g-tkgsbwca10vmw9mc">.</span></div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2287"><span
class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">2) Upgrading from 14.04 to
16.04 works when you use the ISO to upgrade; see </span><span
class="author-g-tkgsbwca10vmw9mc">[2]</span><span
class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">.</span></div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2272"><span
class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">3) </span><span class="">Upgrading
from 14.04 to 16.04 FAILS using update-manager</span><span
class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">.</span></div>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2246"><span
class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">In the original bug report the
tester was left with a frozen system after upgrading. After a
hard reset, they could get into a VT, but not the GUI. It is
possible that you don't see all of the symptoms mentioned here,
but it is likely you will end up in a broken environment. As
noted in the bug report [1], running "dpkg --configure -a"
should</span><span class="author-g-tkgsbwca10vmw9mc"> allow you
to finish the upgrade and then</span><span
class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u"> let the system boot normally.</span></div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2029"><br>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2258"><span
class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">All information we can get to
triage the source of the fail is welcome. If</span><span
class=""> </span><span class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">you</span><span
class=""> have</span><span class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u"> a</span><span
class=""> machine</span><span class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">
or two</span><span class=""> y</span><span
class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">ou</span><span class=""> can
afford to 'break' and then attempt to fix</span><span
class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">, we would be very happy to
hear your </span><span class="">results from </span><span
class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">such testing</span><span
class="">.</span></div>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid1633"><span class="">If you're
in a situation where you cannot afford to break your system,
then </span><span class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">we do NOT
recommend trying to proceed with the upgrade</span><span
class="">.</span><span class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u"> </span><span
class="">The choice of course is yours to make</span><span
class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">, but we don't want our
testers to be left with broken machines.</span></div>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2311"><span class="">Work on</span><span
class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u"> fixing</span><span class="">
</span><span class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">the </span><span
class="">upgrad</span><span class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">e
path</span><span class=""> from 14.04 to 16.04 is being
undertaken by Canonical</span><span
class="author-g-palxbpuayj09o35u">.</span><span class=""> More
information and calls for testing will follow in due course.</span></div>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid1977"><span class="">[1] </span><span
class=" url"><a
href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1559463"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1559463">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1559463</a></a></span></div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid1587"><span
class="author-g-tkgsbwca10vmw9mc">[2] </span><span
class="author-g-tkgsbwca10vmw9mc url"><a
href="http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/testcases/1498/info"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/testcases/1498/info">http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/testcases/1498/info</a></a></span></div>
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