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Upgrade from U12.04 to U13.10 has fatal error

Asked by dick wieland

I did a command line upgrade from 12.04 to 13.10 and during the latter part of the install the upgrade experienced a fatal error.
Things were confused at the time and I answered K to "save" the report for later action.
The problematic upgrade than proceeded to "revert" me back to a previous stage... I still ended up in 13.10 however ?!, which is where am now.
There are 3 crash files in /var/crash which I presume are germane to the problem. Who should I send these to?

Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Did you upgrade to 12.10 and then to 13.04 and then to 13.10?

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michael (yellupcm-gmail) said : 		#2

Please read these sites. Did you upgrade as per these sites?

http://askubuntu.com/questions/322252/upgrading-from-ubuntu-12-04-to-13-10

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2192839

Also read this site.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

13.10 is good only to July 2014.

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dick wieland (rwieland) said : 		#3

I was at 12.10 for about a month. Periodic upgrades went well for awhile, then stuff started to happen. First, it could only do a partial upgrade because of so-called "inconsistencies". Then the final straw was LibreOffice failing to run. That's when I pushed the button for the upgrade to 13.10. And the problem I reported.

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dick wieland (rwieland) said : 		#4

Actually, reviewing my notes, the upgrade path went like this .... 12.04 => 12.10 => 13.10

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dick wieland (rwieland) said : 		#5

So it is not recommended to go from 12.x to 13.x because 14.x is coming out soon? Well, for better or worse I am now at 13.10 and my LibreOffice is working again. It looks more excitement is around the corner in going from where I am to 14.x.

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michael (yellupcm-gmail) said : 		#6

You can't skip releases when upgrading. That said, you can upgrade from one LTS to next LTS. Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 14.04. Skipping from 12.10 to 13.10 will most likely, give problems. Now for a personal opinion, I always do a clean install when I upgrade. That is just my way, many people use upgrade option, and have success. Whatever you do, if your 13.10 is usable, I would wait about a month to install 14.04. There are a few bugs sitll in it. Be sure to back anything that is important, which ever way you upgrade.

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michael (yellupcm-gmail) said : 		#7

Also read this site.

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/247407

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dick wieland (rwieland) said : 		#8

Yes, thanks for your comments. As far as skipping releases goes, I only followed the options available to me thru the Software Updater. Of course Show All versions was perhaps what led me to go down this route.
One 13.x problem I had ... xserver-common-lts-raring is not removeable was finally cleared up by editing the var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-common-lts-raring.postrm" file and removing the "dpkg-divert" command (as suggested in another post). "sudo apt-get autoremove" then finished the job and things seem to be pretty much back to normal , sitting at 13.10

I have used "upgrade" before, and this is the 1st time I've had any problems. But after this experience for my next jump to 14.x I will go the clean-install route.