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update-manager package

update manager did not complete; system was trashed between 8.10 and 9.04

Bug #354008 reported by markgalassi
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update-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

I was running 8.10, which I installed from CD in December. I run very
many packages beyond the bare distribution.

I did update-manager -c -d to upgrade to 9.04beta. I had a good full backup.

The update manager downloaded everything, install much of it, but disappeared
without a trace nor error before completely finishing up.

The result was an unusable system.

I burned a 9.04beta CD and reinstalled from that, so I'm OK now, but
many people will want to use the upgrade procedure; I consider this a show
stopper.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.111.0
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

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markgalassi (mark-galassi) wrote :
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Michael Lustfield (michaellustfield) wrote :

What output did you get after update-manger closed?

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

Please send me the logs of the failed upgrade (in /var/log/dist-upgrade/*) . This way the problem can be diagnosed and dealt with. Please also check if there are crash files in /var/crash/ and if so, please add the output of "ls -l /var/crash/*" to this report.

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → mvo
status: New → Incomplete
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markgalassi (mark-galassi) wrote : Re: [Bug 354008] Re: update manager did not complete; system was trashed between 8.10 and 9.04

    Michael> Thanks for your bugreport. Please send me the logs of
    Michael> the failed upgrade (in /var/log/dist- upgrade/*) . This
    Michael> way the problem can be diagnosed and dealt with. Please
    Michael> also check if there are crash files in /var/crash/ and if
    Michael> so, please add the output of "ls -l /var/crash/*" to this
    Michael> report.

This cannot be done: the system was dead and I had to reinstall.

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Michael Lustfield (michaellustfield) wrote :

This bug can not be handled. Any data that could be used to help developers find the fix has been removed. Therefor, I will be closing this bug.

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
assignee: Michael Vogt (mvo) → nobody
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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