The problem here is that update-manager can't really know the difference between "it's safe to continue upgrade even if some packages didn't upgrade properly" and "everything is broken, yikes, have to reinstall, hope you had backups".
It might perhaps be sensible to have it ask the user whether to continue or abort. ** Summary changed: - update-manager did not clean up after dist-upgrade + update-manager did not clean up after dist-upgrade failed with minor problems ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- update-manager did not clean up after dist-upgrade failed with minor problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444135 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs