I too was affected by this bug. Running 14.04.5 (ASUS NX500J Notebook), no outstanding updates - but HWE upgrade performed to 16.04 compatible as prompted before upgrade, upgrade from terminal to 16.04.1:
$ sudo do-release-upgrade Failed as described by Boki during initial upgrade. Upon reboot I was unable to login via the UI, the UI looked messed up and was unresponsive. But I could access the terminal via: ctrl+alt+f1 I was able to restore a seemingly working 16.04.1 using the following steps: $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade This showed that I was missing a couple of dependencies, the names escape me - but it wasn't the offending package. $ sudo apt-get -f install Installed missing dependencies. $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade This showed a large number of unneeded packages and more importantly a even larger number of up-gradable packages I installed them, while being randomly being prompted for the password for the encrypted swap-partition. It took a while but it succeeded. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1617020 Title: package fontconfig 2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/1617020/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
