problems upgrading from 15.04 to 15:10

[rst2]

Hello,
I'm not positive if this is the correct place for this, but it seemed the most likely candidate.
I have two computers that I am trying to upgrade from 15.04 to 15.10. One is stuck at configuring libsane-common (amd64) About 25 minutes remaining. under installing the upgrades, and has been for at least 12 hours, probably longer.
The other is probably stuck at the same place, but the distribution upgrade window was over written and it won't refresh. It shows the window frame with whatever was in that space last.
One is minimally responsive, the other is mostly functional.
The two computers have essentially (completely?) no hardware in common, but significant software similarities.One is a 6 or 7 year old mid range desktop. the other is a 2 or 3 year old low end laptop.
I'm not sure what info would be useful, but I will provide whatever I can.
Any help would be appreciated.
Ray

[vinnywright]

this is a large upgrade ,,,,,,have you run out of space to unpack the .deb's ?

in konsole

df -h

look to "use%" of /

VINNY

[rst2]

The laptop is at 7%, the desktop at 26%. (and no other partition is higher, in either case.)

[Snowhog]

Are you starting the upgrade from the Update Notifier or from a konsole command line?

[vinnywright]

if they are in the "configur" stage ,,,,,all the .deb's have been DL'd to /var/cache/apt/archives/

you can try to kill the upgrade window/process ,,,,,then in a konsole

"sudo apt-get -f install"

then

"sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"

if those give an error about unconfigured packages do

"sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a"

or as a last resort ,,,,from in the folder /var/cache/apt/archives/ do ,,,, "sudo dpkg -i *.deb"

VINNY

[rst2]

from muon update notifier

[rst2]

I have something interesting. the last few lines of /var/log/dist-upgrade seem to indicate that both machines are waiting for user input regarding the /etc/sane.d/dll.conf file but I haven't seen any windows pop up asking for the input

[Snowhog]

And you won't when running things from the Update Notifier, a MAJOR 'bug' IMO. Doing your package management from the konsole using apt-get doesn't have this problem.

[Guest]

I have something interesting. the last few lines of /var/log/dist-upgrade seem to indicate that both machines are waiting for user input regarding the /etc/sane.d/dll.conf file but I haven't seen any windows pop up asking for the input

I had similar problem on two different computers, laptop & desktop. The installation didn't stop/hang at the same place of the installtion. I am not sure what caused the hang, but below is what I did to complete the upgrade form 15.04 to 15.10. Other than this issue. 15.10 is really really fast & so far I have not encountered any other issues.


- I clicked on the close button (upper right corner cross) to kill the upgrade, task window did not exit but system presented the options to either terminate or wait for longer. I clicked terminate


- I opened Konsole and tried to run update & upgrade but complained about /var/lib/dpkg/lock being used by other application.


- I renamed the the lock file to something else as show below
sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-Abe


- Then I entered the command below,
sudo dpkg --configure -a


The upgrade finished installing/configuring normally.


Hope this helps

[rst2]

Hi Abeosman,
I am following your instructions. So far it looks very promising.
I didn't use your name in renaming the lock file though ;-)
Just as a side note, on the one machine I could't get the upgrade window to close, so I skipped that step and went straight to renaming the lock file. It seems to work just fine.
I will post back when the process finishes.
Thanks, Ray

Just for the sake of formality, I believe that sane has to do with the scanner interface. There was most likely a new config file installed by the brother printer driver on both machines. The real problem is the bug in the update notifier tool chain. How in the world did this ever get out the door?

[rst2]

Ok,
(switching to verbose mode for the sake of google.)
The upgrade process completed. It didn't reboot automatically.(not really surprised) and much of the computer was non-responsive, so I used
sudo shutdown -r now
When It came back up, everything looked fine.
I ran
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get autoremove
I also had to run
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
to update a PGP library
I then had to re-enable a third party PPA repository
another restart (I think because of the autoremove)
And everything appears good to go.

Thanks, Snowhog, Vinnywright and abeosman.

Ray

[Guest]

Hi rst2,

True, the window doesn't close and the installation task keeps running. it was waiting for some input but never prompts for any. As a matter of fact, open terminal, which where the prompt should come up, never opens. On the laptop, the hang was at sane and on the desktop, it was cups.

Any how, Moun Upgrade notifier has been troublesome since 15.04, I had the same problem when I was testing 15.04. Overall, 15,10 is much much better than 15.04 and I am impressed by the speed of Plasma 5.4.2

[Guest]

Hi everybody

I had the same Problem during upgrade. I startet the ugrade from muon.The process hang at 70% libsane_common. Seems to be a general Problem?
Maybe someone can fix that befor more users run into the same Problem.

Thanks

[vinnywright]

Hi everybody

I had the same Problem during upgrade. I startet the ugrade from muon.The process hang at 70% libsane_common. Seems to be a general Problem?
Maybe someone can fix that befor more users run into the same Problem.

Thanks

it is ,,,,,,,the GUI ,,,,Muon dose not offer a pop-up to answer the question of if you want to ceep your old config or take the default.

if you do the upgrade in the CLI you can answer it ,,,,,,,,

sudo do-release-upgrade

VINNY