On 12/10/10 13:51, Glen Mehn wrote: > Please please please file against update-manager. > > Rob: you can try this: > Boot from usb stick or live cd > Mount your filesystems in their correct places, so that your old / is at > /mounts/oldroot > Open a terminal > Type 'chroot /mounts/oldroot' > Run 'dpkg --configure -a' > Run 'grub-install' (shouldn't be necessary, but can't hurt) > > Exit the chroot > Unmount > Reboot without the cd > > Best of luck! > Glen Mehn > e: [email protected] t: @gmehn skype: glenmehn > > -----Original Message----- > From: ian pettitt<[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:46:30 > To: UK Ubuntu Talk<[email protected]> > Reply-To: UK Ubuntu Talk<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes > > On 12/10/10 07:13, Barry Titterton wrote: >> I have just tried to upgrade my sickly install of 10.04 to 10.10. The >> install process failed just after half way when it threw up a window >> which appeared to be asking me what I wanted to do with my modified >> version of GRUB2. This window was positioned behind the progress window, >> and I could only see the top quarter of the window, which contained a >> drop down list of options of what to do with my current version of GRUB. >> The bottom three quarters of the window were hidden so I could not >> select any 'Accept' button. I was unable to move either window to one >> side, nor shrink either window. The install stopped at this point and my >> only option was to press the power button. My computer is now dead. I >> shall have to download the ISO and try a fresh install. >> >> Please note that I had added boot options to GRUB in an effort to solve >> my reliability problems in 10.04. >> >> Has anyone else seen this problem? I do not know if this is a bug that >> needs filing, or another symptom of my faulty install of 10.04. >> >> Barry >> >> > Hi > > I had exactly the same problem. Whatever I did, I could get not to the > window behind. > > I opened a terminal, killed the updating process. I then ran > > sudo dpkg --configure -a > > to finishing configuring the package upgrades that hadn't completed. > This partially completed, but exited reporting errors. These errors were > being reported as /var/cache/debconf/lock was not released when the > update manager process was killed. Searching on launchpad I found the > simplest way to release the lock was to > > sudo rm -rf /var/cache/debconf/* > > Rerunning > > sudo dpkg --configure -a > > then completed without error. I was presented with a number of > configuration screens giving me the option to keep or replace a number > of configuration files (php, samba, rsnapshot, postfix etc) > > Once this was completed I then reran apt-get to update, to ensure that > everything was updated, which also completed without error. > > At this point I was confident to reboot and when I did I was able to > restart and log into 10.10 > > I had backed up everything before starting, and also cloned my 10.04 > install on to an external USB drive using Clonezilla so restoring my > working 10.04 install wouldn't have been too hard. My internet > connection is quite slow at work and in the past I have had the update > process trip up on some packages that didn't download, so I was prepared > for potential problems in the process. However, I have read on this list > and other places to not restart the machine if there is a problem as it > maybe possible to rescue a seemly failed upgrade, which in this case > proved to be correct. > > I would like to file a bug on this, but I am unsure of the best place to > do so. I have searched launchpad and I think I should file it against > update-manager, but I wonder if this is the correct package? Could > anyone confirm this, or direct me to the correct one? > > Thanks > > Ian > Bug filed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/update-manager/+bug/659155
Thanks! Ian -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
