Alejandro, If this is your work/production machine, I would advise you NOT to perform upgrade _*testing*_ on the actual hardware. You can install a VirtualBox "machine" to simulate this effectively. Yes, wait until the release is final and please take care to first backup data to off-line media (E.g. USB drive). Always, periodically, backup data to off-line devices. Sorry if I sound like a "mother hen".
I personally use actual bare machines that I have because they are spare/available and wiping them out does not bother me. Also, there is value in performing upgrade testing on a bare machine as opposed to a VM (slightly different test sub-cases). Good luck, Richard On 04/09/2014 01:37 PM, Alejandro Méndez A. wrote: > Hi Richard, > > I used the `update-manager -d' method. > > My hardware is a Samsung laptop i7, Ati graphics, 1TB HDD. > > I did it in this machine, is not a vbox image. > > There has to be something with the software I had installed or runnig. > I closed everything but maybe somthing was running in the background. > > I will wait for 14.04 to officially come out and do a clean install > since I can't mess up this computer because this is the machine I use > to work. > > If there is something I can give you from my case to help, just ask. > > Thanks anyway. > > > > > 2014-04-09 18:59 GMT+02:00 Richard Elkins <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > Alejandro, > > How did you upgrade: `update-manager -d` or booting an ISO image > and select the upgrade option? Please specify which method. > What hardware are you using? > Were you testing against actual hardware or in a virtual box? > > Outline for upgrade using update-manager against 13.10: > 1 - Do a ground-up install of 13.10 from CD or thumb-drive to the > HDD/SSD or use a virtual box item (less disruptive). > 2 - Bring 13.10 installation up-to-date. > 3 - In a terminal window, start `update-manager -d`. > 4 - After a long update-manager run, did it work or did you see > failure? If failure, report it against update-manager. > > Outline for upgrade using 14.04 ISO image against 13.10: > 1 - Do a ground-up install of 13.10 from CD or thumb-drive to the > HDD/SSD or use a virtual box item (less disruptive). > 2 - Bring 13.10 installation up-to-date. > 3 - Boot the 14.04 ISO image and perform an upgrade of the > existing 13.10 installation. > 4 - When complete, did it work or did you see failure? If > failure, report it against ubiquity. > > The 2 outlines for upgrading 12.04.xx are essentially the same. > > I did both methods (update-manager and ubiquity/ISO) and had no > issues with starting with 12.04.xx or 13.10. > > Richard > > > On 04/09/2014 09:29 AM, Alejandro Méndez A. wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've tried to update from 13.10 to contribute but I haven't had >> Tiago's luck. I've had some errors regarding gnumeric, >> xscreensaver, libc6. >> >> Then another error said Could not install the upgrades >> >> The upgrade has aborted. Your system could be in an unusable >> state. A recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a) >> >> I press closed and immediately another message said that the >> update was complete but there were errors. I restarted and the >> lock screen have changed to the 14.04 one, then I got an error to >> report. >> >> Now the machine works but the Xubuntu menu is the same as 13.10 >> and so far I haven't found any other problem. >> >> How could I finish the upgrade. It didn't finish it completed >> three quarters only. >> >> Thank you. >> >> >> 2014-04-09 16:20 GMT+02:00 Elfy <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>>: >> >> On 09/04/14 14:55, Tiago Ribeiro wrote: >>> You welcome, Bruno. I just want to help :) >>> >>> And yes. I did the proper report in the path you gave me and >>> with the machine specs. >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Tiago Ribeiro >>> >> Thank you :) >> >> >> Elfy >> >> -- >> Ubuntu Forum Council Member >> Xubuntu QA Lead >> >> >> -- >> xubuntu-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> ? ???? >> >> > > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > > > > > -- > > > ? ???? > >
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