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Can't upgrade to ubuntu saucy

Asked by Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty

My computer is a 32-bit emachines er1402 with nvidea graphics (using nvidea driver). I previously upgraded directly from 12.04 to 13.04 by changing the sources.list and doing a dist-upgrade via terminal, and no problems have arrised. I installed from ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS cd and upgraded to precise. Update-manager -d segfaults upon clicking the upgrade button.
Any solutions apart from using the commandline?
I will now upgrade using the commandline, but this may be helpful for other upgraders.

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Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty (hamishmb) said : 		#1

Tried again. It now works, but it may be useful to fix this. The messages were:

hamish@hamish-desktop:~$ update-manager -d
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

and then it exited.
It's now working currectly.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Did you upgrade to 12.10 in between 12.04 and 13.04?

As Saucy is pre-release and VERY unstable, I recommend a clean install so that the issues you report are due to the OS and not caused by residual files from the old install.

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : 		#3

You have to know that Saucy is not stable yet. Also when Saucy released you could not install any binary driver (nvidia or AMD). Binary drivers are not supported in Saucy because of xmir DS.

So first clean up your system. Purge any binary driver and then follow these instructions
http://askubuntu.com/questions/203301/how-to-safely-upgrade-from-an-older-ubuntu-version-to-a-newer/203302#203302

These instructions can be applied for an upgrade to a testing release also. The only thing you have to do by yourself is to add the -d switch in do-release-upgrade command
-d = devel-release

    sudo do-release-upgrade -d

Regards
 NikTh

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Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty (hamishmb) said : 		#4

No I didn't upgrade to 12.10, which I know is a bad idea, but I got it working very well and cleaned it up. Anyway, I'm now running on a partially upgraded 13.10 system. It did install the binary driver though...

Anyway, I have dependency problems and have had to fsck the file system and boot using modified grub options, but once the upgrade semi-completed I got it to boot correctly. I'll now finish installing the rest of the packages...

Thanks, Hamish

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Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty (hamishmb) said : 		#5

Completed the upgrade. I had to manually remove obsolete dpkg info files, but all is now fine.

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Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty (hamishmb) said : 		#6

No, it isn't. It broke unity and I was unable to fix it after a lot of faffing, so I reinstalled 13.04 as fresh. I then had to install nvidia drivers, but it runs much better. Thanks for your help.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

What did you expect...Saucy is not stable and Raring is stable.....

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Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty (hamishmb) said : 		#8

This is exactly what I expected. There is no need to be rude