[Bug 1589551] Re: upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04 or direct install of 16.04 fails
Hello, I have thought a lot about why *all* my upgrades from 14.04 to 16.04 have failed. This does not fit with my past experience with Ubuntu, and quite frankly, it is worrisome. However, one thing does come to mind: I run LVM on virtually all my computers, and this may be the common element where the upgrader fails. Have you sufficiently tested upgrading 14.04 LVM installations (particularly those done manually) to 16.04? Note, there is nothing unusual or strange about my LVM installations: /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro) /dev/mapper/vgdisk-tmp on /tmp type ext4 (rw) /dev/mapper/vgdisk-home on /home type ext4 (rw) [home] /dev/mapper/vgdisk-opt on /opt type ext4 (rw) /dev/mapper/vgdisk-var on /var type ext4 (rw) or on another machine /dev/mapper/main-root / ext4 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0 /dev/mapper/main-tmp /tmp ext4 rw,noatime 0 0 /dev/mapper/main-boot /boot ext4 rw,noatime 0 0 /dev/mapper/main-home /home ext4 rw 0 0 /dev/mapper/main-usr /usr ext4 rw,noatime 0 0 /dev/mapper/main-var /var ext4 rw,noatime 0 0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1589551 Title: upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04 or direct install of 16.04 fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1589551/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1589551] Re: upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04 or direct install of 16.04 fails
** Tags added: trusty2wily -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1589551 Title: upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04 or direct install of 16.04 fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1589551/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1589551] Re: upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04 or direct install of 16.04 fails
Last night my wife made the mistake of answering yes to the upgrade to 16.04 message that appeared on her 14.04 Gnome desktop. Like the other upgrades this one was a spectacular failure. The net result is a black screen of death. I haven't seen this kind of total failure since the early Windows days. This is really pitiful. Almost 3 months after I first reported this problem (and there are *many* other similar reports), and something like four or five months after the product release, it still has a 100% failure rate to install here (4 different machines). The worst part of it, is though I am a relatively experienced Linux developer and long time Ubuntu user, I have been unable to resurrect a single one of these broken machines, because they end up in such a messed up final state of missing, conflicting, or misconfigured packages. I have no choice but to follow advice that previously given only by Microsoft and re-install the system from scratch. Two of the updates involved long running machines, so they probably had some old packages, but they were all 100% patched to the latest 14.04. Two of the machines were very recent new installations of 14.04 (less than a month old). Sorry for some of the insulting/sarcastic language, but for a long time you had a great product, but for this release you have really screwed up -- probably because you have diversified into too many new "products" and not allocated appropriate resources to your base system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1589551 Title: upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04 or direct install of 16.04 fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1589551/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1589551] Re: upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04 or direct install of 16.04 fails
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[Bug 1589551] Re: upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04 or direct install of 16.04 fails
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1589551 Title: upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04 or direct install of 16.04 fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1589551/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
