Upgrader stuck at 71%

[whatthefunk]

I made the jump from 14.10 to 15.04 this afternoon, but the installer stopped while 71% finished with Installing the Upgrades about an hour ago. The installer window is frozen so clicking Show Terminal does nothing. Whats my next move? I would really like to not have to reinstall the whole thing.

[whatthefunk]

Figured it out. I had altered a pulseaudio system file and the installer needed to ask me if I wanted to keep the altered version or replace it, but the Ubuntu Upgrader wasnt able to ask this question. I killed the upgrader and configured dpkg in the terminal where the system was able to ask me the question. Kind of ridiculous that such a basic task killed the upgrader.

[NickStone]

Congratulations on upgrading to plasma5, you'll have plenty of fun trying to use a buggy desktop.

[whatthefunk]

Yeah, Im already running into trouble. Switching activities with a shortcut is broken. Thats a huge problem for me.

[NickStone]

If you've upgraded from plasma-desktop (KDE4) to plasma5 you might want to remove your .kde directory in your home folder / partition.

[whatthefunk]

Done. Thanks for the tip.

[SteveRiley]

Figured it out. I had altered a pulseaudio system file and the installer needed to ask me if I wanted to keep the altered version or replace it, but the Ubuntu Upgrader wasnt able to ask this question. I killed the upgrader and configured dpkg in the terminal where the system was able to ask me the question. Kind of ridiculous that such a basic task killed the upgrader.

Wow, that seems like a major and basic failing. If you have a Launchpad account, perhaps you could file a bug against the upgrader? I imagine many people will encounter similar problems.