Installation completed with a workaround that I will document below. This bug can be summarized in two parts.
-=-=- #1) GUI Installer crashed with black screen at start of unpacking phase. Had to reboot. Unsolved mystery. -=-=- #2) Running `sudo apt-get dist-upgrade` gave an error. Workaround provided by link in comment #3. $ sudo nano -w /usr/lib/python2.7/sre_constants.py Look for: from _sre import MAXREPEAT Replace with: MAXREPEAT = 65535 #from _sre import MAXREPEAT $ sudo nano -w /usr/lib/python2.7/sre_constants.py $ nano -w /usr/lib/python2.7/sre_parse.py Look for: from _sre import MAXREPEAT Replace with: #from _sre import MAXREPEAT -=-=- Hope this helps someone. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1165281 Title: 12.10 to 13.04 Failed, Now Get "An upgrade from raring to quantal is not supported with this tool" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1165281/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
