Liberal application of dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/.... has gotten me much further, but this is a real sticking point:
225 upgraded, 122 newly installed, 315 to remove and 2028 not upgraded. 16 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/254 MB of archives. After this operation, 389 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 374078 files and directories currently installed.) Removing systemd-shim (9-1bzr4ubuntu1) ... Removing 'diversion of /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service to /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service.systemd by systemd-shim' dpkg-divert: error: rename involves overwriting '/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service' with different file '/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service.systemd', not allowed dpkg: error processing package systemd-shim (--remove): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: systemd-shim E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) That diversion does exist: $ dpkg-divert --list | grep shim diversion of /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service to /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service.systemd by systemd-shim and those files exist, with different contents: ebf27f9c1e4b77939498616a1500e6a2cdb00862c116294d9844f5ddef8d0ca7 /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service 37a68d852e39114b9691001fc91c9db098e506e077a324329c46159020ab3f39 /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service.systemd -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1768379 Title: failed 16.04 LTS -> 18.04 LTS upgrade To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1768379/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
