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Ubuntu upgrade failed.

Asked by Martin Sondergaard

Two days ago I tried to update Ubuntu, but when I try to check
to see what version I am now running, it says its "Ubuntu 6.06".
Does that mean that the update failed in some way,
or it it only the version number that is wrong?

To be more specific, I checked the version by using "System, About".

"System, About Ubuntu" opens a Yelp file that says "Thank you for
your interest in Ubuntu 6.06.". But I've just updated Ubuntu, with the Update Manager.
So why is it such an old version? Or is it now a new version,
with an old Yelp file thats opened when I use "System, About"?

Its probably just a problem in the Yelp help file, not in the update.
But I'm not sure, because Ubuntu looks the same as before,
and bugs that I reported months ago are still there.

I want the Yelp file thats called up by "System, About Ubuntu"
to be kept up to date, when Ubuntu is updated,
because this is the obvious place to look for a version number.

(I would like to report another couple of bugs,
but I'll have to wait until I know what version I an running,
so I can say this in my bug reports.)

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Best Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#1

To check your kernel version type this in a terminal:

uname -a

To check your Ubuntu version type this in a terminal:

cat /etc/issue

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Martin Sondergaard (linux-sondergaard) said : 		#2

  Ok, I did that, and got this :

$
$ uname -a
ubuntu7 2.6.15-28-386 #1 PREEMPT Thu May 10 09:45:43 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
$
$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS \n \l

$
$

              I then ran "Update Manager".
              Update Manager says "Your system is up-to-date".

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#3

Can you post here the result of these commands:

tail /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log
ls -l /var/log/dist-upgrade

Can you try running the update manager from a terminal?

Use this command:

sudo update-manager -c

And report here any output.

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Helton Dória (helton-doria) said : 		#4

Your system appear to be a Ubuntu Dapper. In this case, dist-upgrade will not be the better manner to upgrading it, because you will need to upgrade to Edgy before can upgrade to Feisty (and could occur a lot problems in this mean time). I would suggest backup your data, download a Feisty ISO and to do a fresh install.

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Martin Sondergaard (linux-sondergaard) said : 		#5

  Hello Cesare. The result was :

$
$ tail /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log
tail: cannot open `/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log' for reading: No such file or directory
$ ls -l /var/log/dist-upgrade
ls: /var/log/dist-upgrade: No such file or directory
$
$ sudo update-manager -c
Password:
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:17: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet
  warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)
$

        Now it says version 6.10 is available.
        Below the message saying my system is up-to-date, it says version 6.10 is available.

        If I open update-manager in the usual way, from Gnome,
it still says my system is up-to-date, and doesn't say version 6.10 is available.
       But it says 6.10 is available when I start it from the terminal.

  It said "New distribution release "6.10" is available.".

  So I started the upgrade, I'm doing it now.
Maybe I should not have done this yet, maybe I should have made some effort
to find the cause of the bug first.

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#6

Hey, come on, are we men or what!? (if somebody say what punch him on the nose).
Please report back if success (or not....).

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Martin Sondergaard (linux-sondergaard) said : 		#7

    Yes, it upgraded correctly. Success! Good!
First I upgraded to 6.10, then to 7.04.

    Thank you for your help Cesare.

    I looked at 6.10 and found that a couple of bugs
that had irritated me had been fixed.

    I looked at 7.04, looking to see if I could find any changes.
I tried out the file manager, Nautilus. This program had been
the biggest weakness in Ubuntu, for me.
I had been struggling to find my way around the Linux file system.
I knew that I would find it easier to understand it if Nautilus had
a proper "location bar", showing the folder names, starting from root.
Well, I see that Nautilus now has a button that lets me switch
between a "text based location bar", and the useless "buttons" that
were there before.
    This is really helpful. I find it much easier to understand
how the files system is organised now.
    I don't know if Nautilus had this button there before;
maybe it was there and I just didn't notice it.
But I'm glad that it has a text-based location bar now.
(Does anyone know if that was there before,
prior to 7.04 ?)

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Martin Sondergaard (linux-sondergaard) said : 		#8

Thanks Cesare Tirabassi, that solved my question.