Yes, thanks Roger. I don't know a lot about UNIX yet, but that could be the problem indeed for me. I remember that the last time I upgraded to Intrepid it also failed, and I was down to a partial upgrade again. I don't know a lot of commands in the terminal yet, so what I usually do is the following cycle:
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get upgrade $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade $ sudo apt-get install -f $ sudo dpkg --configure -a $ sudo update-manager -d $ sudo reboot When I think I messed it up too much, I try to do: $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a I always kept getting the following message for one package, and when that was resolved I got the same message for another package: $ sudo apt-get upgrade 0 newly installed, 0 upgraded, 0 removed, 1 not upgraded The following package was held back: "package name" and also: $ sudo apt-get update: failed to fetch package "package-name" When that happened I did: $ sudo apt-get source "package-name" $ sudo apt-get install "package-name" $ sudo apt-get build-dep "package-name" $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure "package-name" followed by the above described commands, and kept on trucking. Finally I ran into a package I could not get either way. So what I did instead was to run: $ sudo synaptic After that I tried fix broken packages and mark all upgrades. After that I clicked on repositories and changed the server from main server to UK server and finally to Ireland server (I live in Belfast). After that I clicked on reload in synaptic and tried fix broken packages and mark all upgrades again. Now the apply button turned green and I could download some new packages. After that I repeated my familiar ritual in the terminal. That is how I finally got a working configuration which is up to date. Therefore maybe I think you are right, there could be broken packages. I will now try to repeat this by installing hardy on virtual box and upgrade it to Intrepid. I will try to document every step. If any of the devolopers have an idea, they should ask me about it. First I must go offline today however, as I need to put in another 2 GB ROM chip. My Vista Ultimate with Office 2007 Ultimate and Systran is to slow under Virtual Box 1.6.4. Nowing my own technical prawess, I could be offline for a long time, hehe. Thanks again and cheers, Thomas ----- Original Message ---- From: roger thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 11:41:16 AM Subject: Re: [Bug 254238] Re: update manager crashes on upgrade Hi Thomas ,thanks for info - I think that there are 2 separate problems: 1)Update manager loops when it encounters errors in updates (it should issue error warning or return to status-quo rather than looping) 2)Why are some 'updates' issued with errors in them ? Possibly one of the library files is wrong. Kind regards,Roger > Hi, I upgrade several times to 8.10 so far with update-manager -d. I > could not finish the upgrade becuase the display crashed and I had to > use to soft reboot. After that I got no error report pop up, and when I > ran update manager again, I could not upgrade completely, but I could do > a partial upgrade. Mostly Intrepid was rendered to stable and I had to > start over again. It always crashed when I was doing something CPU or > ROM intensive, like trying to open DRM protected files with totem or > something. The last time I upgraded, it also crashed, but I managed to > get a working version, that still has display freezes from time to time, > see my last bug report. It could be that this has nothing to do with > this, in which case I apologize for spamming, but I tought I just give > it a try. Cheers, Thomas . > -- update manager crashes on upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/254238 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. -- update manager crashes on upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/254238 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
