7.10>8.04 upgrade +- success [RESOLVED]

[tom_d]

I followed
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades/Kubuntu
and all went +-as it suggests

two anomalies:
it warned me of two config changes: one to cups, one to smb.conf- both of which I refused

my printer seems to be intact thus far

However:
in a console I get this:

tom@fawn:~$ sudo apt-get update
sudo: unable to resolve host fawn

FOUND THAT /ETC/HOSTS HAD BEEN MODIFIED, 'FAWN' REMOVED FROM LOCALHOST
REBOOTED IN RECOVERY MODE TO GET ROOT ACCESS, DID THE EDIT, NOW IT WORKS.

tom@fawn:~$ locate smb.conf
locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': No such file or directory

what am I missing here?

Second anomaly:
the Reboot Required box came up before the Cleanup was finished, and then it rebooted entirely on its own (ie I touched nothing)

Is there something I should do now to force the cleanup to complete itself?

[spotslayer]

Re: 7.10>8.04 upgrade +- success [+-RESOLVED- read on]

U need to do

sudo updatedb

That should put things back to normal.

David

[tom_d]

Re: 7.10>8.04 upgrade +- success [+-RESOLVED- read on]

U need to do

sudo updatedb

That should put things back to normal.

David

yup- that solved the locate thing
thanks!

[paxmark1]

Re: 7.10>8.04 upgrade +- success [RESOLVED]

Question.

What if when you attempt sudo updatedb you get

sudo: unable to resolve host raunes

or doing sudo dpkg -configure

anything involving sudo yields

sudo: unable to resolve host raunes

[kubicle]

Re: 7.10>8.04 upgrade +- success [RESOLVED]

anything involving sudo yields

sudo: unable to resolve host raunes

The first thing to check is that your hostname is correctly set up in /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname files, /etc/hosts should contain a line similar to:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost HOSTNAME

Where 'HOSTNAME' is the same as in /etc/hostname.

If you're unsure, you can post the contents of aforementioned files here and someone can check them for you. Post again if that doesn't solve the problem.

NOTE: If you can't use sudo, you need to boot into recovery mode to get root access to edit those files (unless you have enabled the root account for some reason)

[paxmark1]

Re: 7.10>8.04 upgrade +- success [RESOLVED]

Thanks, got it fixed in /etc/hosts , then sudo updatedb, etc.

Took me a bit to remember my root password.

[Nck]

Re: 7.10>8.04 upgrade +- success [RESOLVED]

tom@fawn:~$ sudo apt-get update
sudo: unable to resolve host fawn

I had this problem on upgrade to hardy, too. I found this solution:

FOUND THAT /ETC/HOSTS HAD BEEN MODIFIED, 'FAWN' REMOVED FROM LOCALHOST
REBOOTED IN RECOVERY MODE TO GET ROOT ACCESS, DID THE EDIT, NOW IT WORKS.

but was given "permission denied" on /etc/hosts. Testing further, su gives me authorisation failure on entering my password at the Password: prompt. Before upgrading, I only had the one password, which is still working fine to log in. So it seems the root password has changed, but I certainly did not change it. Any ideas?

[Nck]

Re: 7.10>8.04 upgrade +- success [RESOLVED]

but was given "permission denied" on /etc/hosts.

Fixed now, but I had to use a live CD, which is a bit disturbing.