Thanks. Meantime, I was able to get my video card recognized, so I'm running on 14.04 as well, and I've turned off notifications of non-lts releases.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Gary Krueger <[email protected]> wrote: > I abandoned the release-upgrader route for upgrading from root encrypted > 14.04 LTS pretty quickly. I later tried to upgrade by downloading to a > USB key and reinstalling. However, the current Ubuntu 15.04 and 15.10 > has a problem with broken encryption. So, encrypting partitions was > broke in a way that made it very difficult to know why the install > wasn't working. > > Root encrypted 14.04 LTS had always been a problem for me. It would > boot up in a way that left the screen blank. In order to unencrypt to > complete the bootup, I had to ALT-CTRL-F6 then ALT-CTRL-F7 to get it to > ask for the encryption key. > > What forced me to try to upgrade was that the (Broadcom) WiFi broke, and > I forgot that I had read that updates and upgrades may break the WiFi > that was installed. > > It would also crash on occasion when suspending (after several > suspensions). > > So, I reverted to an unencrypted install of 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr). > Then, when creating the user account, I selected the option for > encryption of the user directory. Much easier. And the machine is now > much more reliable. > > So far, I have done more than several suspends and it has been rock > solid. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1534374 > > Title: > unable to upgrade to 15.04 due to libstdc++6 SRU > > Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu: > Triaged > > Bug description: > initially had a problem with X when i installed a new Nvidia video > card. got that working but only one monitor was functioning (other is > displayport). Thought maybe upgrading to a new release might fix the > problem. Software update only offered 15.04, so I said ok and tried > to upgrade. It crashed with the info attached. rebooted just in > case, but still get the same problem > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 > Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.8 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt20 > Uname: Linux 3.16.0-57-generic x86_64 > ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19 > Architecture: amd64 > CrashDB: ubuntu > Date: Thu Jan 14 18:38:01 2016 > InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-14 (306 days ago) > InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 > (20150218.1) > PackageArchitecture: all > ProcEnviron: > TERM=xterm > PATH=(custom, no user) > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader > UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2016-01-14 (0 days ago) > VarLogDistupgradeTermlog: > > mtime.conffile..etc.update.manager.release.upgrades: > 2016-01-14T18:29:51.136835 > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1534374/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1534374 Title: unable to upgrade to 15.04 due to libstdc++6 SRU To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1534374/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
