Thank you for your reply, I appreciate the feedback. After starting this thread I discovered that the 16.04 upgrade worked flawlessly except for what I consider a bug (1611921 - no response): The serial console didn't work! I had forgotten about this, connecting across the LAN worked fine and everything seems to be correct. I had to start/enable serial-getty@ttyS0 and navigate the baud rate change from BIOS (115200) to Ubuntu (9600) but the serial console now works.
Harriscomputer Leroy Tennison Network Information/Cyber Security Specialist E: [email protected] [cid:Data-Voice-International-LOGO_aa3d1c6e-5cfb-451f-ba2c-af8059e69609.PNG] 2220 Bush Dr McKinney, Texas 75070 www.datavoiceint.com<http://www..com> This message has been sent on behalf of a company that is part of the Harris Operating Group of Constellation Software Inc. These companies are listed here<http://subscribe.harriscomputer.com/>. If you prefer not to be contacted by Harris Operating Group please notify us<http://subscribe.harriscomputer.com/>. This message is intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This communication may contain information that is proprietary, privileged or confidential or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. If you are not the named addressee, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy or disseminate this message or any part of it. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail and delete all copies of the message. ________________________________ From: Armindo Silva <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 5:46:52 AM To: Leroy Tennison Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Canceled do-release-upgrade Hello Leroy, Probably not all packages were downloaded/installed. Depending on where you were on the upgrade process the Crtl-c may try to reverse the install. You can use the livecd to boot/chroot into that installation, check if your apt config is pointing to xenial repositories (something like grep xenial /etc/apt/sources.list should output several lines) and then try to finish it: sudo apt update + sudo apt dist-upgrade. On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 9:37 PM Leroy Tennison <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I was upgrading a headless unit from Ubuntu server 14.04 to 16.04 when I accidentally hit Ctrl-C. The result was the process aborted and wouldn't restart ("another process is running"). I searched the web and came up with a few possibilities. I removed the lock and lock-frontend files, at this point 'dpkg --configure -a' appeared to re-launch the process which proceeded but ended with errors. I made some configuration file changes and rebooted, the initial Ubuntu startup screen didn't even appear. Obviously I made a (or multiple) mistake(s). Now my question is "What can I do to recover using Live media?" I presume I could do a re-install without formatting the root file system but I'm wondering if there's a less drastic approach and order of things I should try. Thanks for your help. Harriscomputer Leroy Tennison Network Information/Cyber Security Specialist E: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [X] 2220 Bush Dr McKinney, Texas 75070 www.datavoiceint.com<http://www..com> This message has been sent on behalf of a company that is part of the Harris Operating Group of Constellation Software Inc. These companies are listed here<https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fsubscribe.harriscomputer.com%2f&c=E,1,Ppn0qFOPsyhvUHrL2zfyqpIvT-zLuDztHT-LAJnOxxxqjrMFWU8l2_DA4e6WMgvP2wtc14igMwwodYupLdcSF1OMCHFChrIQ4LIuHycqsd5rAg7tf7wk07jr&typo=1>. If you prefer not to be contacted by Harris Operating Group please notify us<https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fsubscribe.harriscomputer.com%2f&c=E,1,9GtQWiu9Bb5yc0uTg8CDHNKpaiy3Izl7AazpM9hlnYsUwUAj99ZHYRgAbJFIIYe3tG_3X6EW2wmqmWOTMLSNOperGBT5xyT5zAFsPdWbddOqCSJfLFcM-g,,&typo=1>. This message is intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This communication may contain information that is proprietary, privileged or confidential or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. If you are not the named addressee, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy or disseminate this message or any part of it. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail and delete all copies of the message. -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam -- -- "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." Sir Arthur C. Clarke
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