Upgrade crashed, can't restart

[rproffit]

I was following the instructions to upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 over the internet. I ran 'update-notifier-kde -u' from a konsole terminal. When I got back from my coffee, the GUI was hung on the "installing upgrades" step, and the konsole window had the following crash dump:

user@hostname:~$ update-notifier-kde -u
extracting 'karmic.tar.gz'       
authenticate 'karmic.tar.gz' against 'karmic.tar.gz.gpg' 
/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/dbus/connection.py:242: DeprecationWarning: object.__init__() takes no parameters
 super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)                                

adept_manager: no process killed
adept_updater: no process killed
 * Starting automatic crash report generation: apport
  ...done.                     
exitMainLoop                     
Traceback (most recent call last):          
 File "/tmp/tmp574Cxr/karmic", line 7, in <module> 
  sys.exit(main())                 
 File "/tmp/tmp574Cxr/DistUpgradeMain.py", line 132, in main
  if app.run():                      
 File "/tmp/tmp574Cxr/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1590, in run
  return self.fullUpgrade()                   
 File "/tmp/tmp574Cxr/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1564, in fullUpgrade
  if not self.doDistUpgrade():                      
 File "/tmp/tmp574Cxr/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1049, in doDistUpgrade
  "                                    
" 6.942703e-310)                              
 File "/tmp/tmp574Cxr/DistUpgradeViewKDE.py", line 696, in error      
  loadUi("dialog_error.ui", dialogue)                   
 File "/tmp/tmp574Cxr/DistUpgradeViewKDE.py", line 59, in loadUi      
  uic.loadUi(file, parent)                         
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/__init__.py", line 112, in loadUi
  pyqt3_wrapper is optionally set to generate extra code that allows the code   
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/Loader/loader.py", line 8, in __init__
  UIParser.__init__(self, QtCore, QtGui, LoaderCreatorPolicy())             
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/uiparser.py", line 87, in __init__  
  self.factory = QObjectCreator(creatorPolicy)                     
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/objcreator.py", line 43, in __init__ 
  if load_plugin(open(os.path.join(plugindir, filename)), plugin_globals, plugin_locals):
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/python-qt4/widget-plugins/kde4.py'
Error in sys.excepthook:                                  
Traceback (most recent call last):                             
 File "/tmp/tmp574Cxr/DistUpgradeViewKDE.py", line 575, in _handleException        
  loadUi("dialog_error.ui", dialog)                            
 File "/tmp/tmp574Cxr/DistUpgradeViewKDE.py", line 59, in loadUi              
  uic.loadUi(file, parent)                                
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/__init__.py", line 112, in loadUi    
  pyqt3_wrapper is optionally set to generate extra code that allows the code       
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/Loader/loader.py", line 8, in __init__ 
  UIParser.__init__(self, QtCore, QtGui, LoaderCreatorPolicy())              
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/uiparser.py", line 87, in __init__   
  self.factory = QObjectCreator(creatorPolicy)                      
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/objcreator.py", line 43, in __init__  
  if load_plugin(open(os.path.join(plugindir, filename)), plugin_globals, plugin_locals): 
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/python-qt4/widget-plugins/kde4.py'

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/tmp/tmp574Cxr/karmic", line 7, in <module>
  sys.exit(main())                
 File "/tmp/tmp574Cxr/DistUpgradeMain.py", line 132, in main
  if app.run():                      
 File "/tmp/tmp574Cxr/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1590, in run
  return self.fullUpgrade()                   
 File "/tmp/tmp574Cxr/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1564, in fullUpgrade
  if not self.doDistUpgrade():                      
 File "/tmp/tmp574Cxr/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1049, in doDistUpgrade
  "                                    
" 6.942703e-310)                              
 File "/tmp/tmp574Cxr/DistUpgradeViewKDE.py", line 696, in error      
  loadUi("dialog_error.ui", dialogue)
 File "/tmp/tmp574Cxr/DistUpgradeViewKDE.py", line 59, in loadUi
  uic.loadUi(file, parent)
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/__init__.py", line 112, in loadUi
  pyqt3_wrapper is optionally set to generate extra code that allows the code
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/Loader/loader.py", line 8, in __init__
  UIParser.__init__(self, QtCore, QtGui, LoaderCreatorPolicy())
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/uiparser.py", line 87, in __init__
  self.factory = QObjectCreator(creatorPolicy)
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/objcreator.py", line 43, in __init__
  if load_plugin(open(os.path.join(plugindir, filename)), plugin_globals, plugin_locals):
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/python-qt4/widget-plugins/kde4.py'
user@hostname:~$

When I tried to restart 'update-notifier-kde -u', I got the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/update-notifier-kde", line 26, in <module>
  from PyQt4.QtCore import *
ImportError: No module named PyQt4.QtCore

Does anyone know what I can do to complete the installation?

Thanks,
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[rproffit]

Re: Upgrade crashed, can't restart

I found that dpkg was hung, so I killed it and then ran 'apt-get dist-upgrade', which informed me I needed to run 'dpkg --configure -a'. This ran to completion and seems to have configured everything correctly. Retrying 'apt-get dist-upgrade' shows no packages needing upgrade, so this might have resolved it.

Ironically, I switched from Gentoo to Kubuntu earlier this year because Gentoo upgrades would constantly fail or break my system. I'm not pleased with the results of my first Kubuntu upgrade.

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