Can't upgrade at all

[leftbas]

Hi, all.

I have a couple of machines. My main box is an Athlon 3000+ custom job, and I also have an HP Compaq nx9020 notebook that I inherited and use for a test bed. Both were running 7.04 as of last night.

I started upgrading the notebook last night, and it stalled on the second step. So I rebooted and started the upgrade again. The problem might have been due to the fact that it talks to the internet over a WiFi connection, but the second attempt worked flawlessly. Pretty quick, too, I might add.

The problem is with the desktop. I followed the instructions the same as I had with the notebook upgrade, but the process stalls just after the upgrade wizard completes the 'preparing the upgrade' step, then it quits. I've killed all the processes running in the kicker, but it still does the same thing. I removed Envy, thinking that it might have conflicted in some way; it wasn't working out for me anyhow.

So I browsed through about a weeks worth of posts before writing this, and found nothing. I'm stumped. Any suggestions?

[lmilano]

Re: Can't upgrade at all

Hi,

See this thread:
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3087746

I ended up dropping to the command line, that worked fine. Many people got stuck with this, apparently due to "unsopported packages" that were installed in their systems ...

[integr8e]

Re: Can't upgrade at all

Also, I've had success with the following method:

Note: Before you do anything, PLEASE, backup all your important information.

This way may be a little dirty, but has worked on both my computer and another I helped upgrade.

Press Alt+F2 and run the command

kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list

Replace your Feisty repos with the following:

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-proposed main restricted universe multiverse

(These are the Gutsy repos)

Save it and open Konsole. Run the following commands in order:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -f

sudo dpkg --configure -a

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

That should upgrade you to Gutsy; as I said before, it's kinda' dirty, but effective.

[Snowhog]

Re: Can't upgrade at all

Or,
Ubuntu sources.list generator

[integr8e]

Re: Can't upgrade at all

@Snowhog, that's pretty cool, I didn't know about that.

There are two other essential commands I forgot to include:

sudo apt-get autoremove

&

sudo apt-get autoclean

So, after using the Ubuntu sources.list generator (as Snowhog suggested), and replacing your Feisty repos with the Gutsy repos in your /etc/apt/sources.list directory, the order of commands should go something like the following:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -f

sudo apt-get autoremove

sudo dpkg --configure -a

sudo apt-get autoclean

sudo apt-get update

and, finally,

sudo apt-get upgrade

[leftbas]

Re: Can't upgrade at all

Ok, I know it's been a while, but I was avoiding the problem for a month. But I finally got back to it. I tried all your suggestions, and unfortunately none of them solved the problem. I even went so far as to level the hard drive and reinstall from scratch. Nothing worked. I tried both the x86 and amd64 versions, and a couple of things have happened. One, the X server freaks out and blanks out the display half the time so that I can't log on. And the other is that when the display does work (I eventually had to install an older video card to compensate), Gutsy would hang up on the updates, complaining about not being able to install one of the update packages for fear it would break a dependancy.

I went back to Feisty and everything is fine. So there's something amiss with Gutsy for sure. Does anyone know of any particular pieces of hardware that Gusty doesn't like? Or maybe a link to a post with a similar problem? I'm disappointed. This is the first real problem I've ever had with Kubuntu since I came over at version 6.04.

Thanks in advance.

[integr8e]

Re: Can't upgrade at all

If you can get Gutsy installed, but just not login, press Ctrl+Alt+F2 when you should be at the KDM login screen to take you to a terminal. Once there, login and enter the command

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

That will allow you to reconfigure X.org; choose 'vesa' as your video driver and just select the defaults for everything else. Once you can get to your GUI, we'll worry about configuring the appropriate video driver.

If you just can't get Gutsy installed for anything, try burning another CD - or even try the Alternate CD. You can also upgrade your Feisty system to Gutsy with the Alternate CD by inserting it into your CD-ROM drive while logged in to Kubuntu, and entering the following command via console:

kdesu "sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade"

Let me know how it goes

Edit: Oh, the quotation (" ") marks in the command are necessary in this situation.