Public bug reported: I am using the tux on ice kernel from a ppa. When I tried to upgrade to 15.10, it crashed in the background, leaving the gtk3 dialog sitting there doing nothing. I had run "sudo update-manager -c" from a terminal command line, and so after waiting a long time, watching the CPU level, then checking with htop, I could see that it wasn't doing anything but waiting for the now-crashed do-release-upgrade to finish or something. I killed it with Ctrl-c. It left the apt sources.list configuration in the modified state.
I used the command line to move the sources.list.distUpgrade and sources.list.d/*.distUpgrade back into place, ran apt-get update, and then used aptitude to install a stock Ubuntu kernel. Now the release upgrader works fine... but failed since I had not enough room in /boot -- good job on the error recovery there. Nice. I've cleaned out the old kernel image packages, and am about to run the release upgrade again. Sorry for the duplicate bug submission. The first one was automatic. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:15.04.14.3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-31.36-lowlatency 3.19.8-ckt7 Uname: Linux 3.19.0-31-lowlatency x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.7 Architecture: amd64 CrashDB: ubuntu CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sun Nov 1 14:29:40 2015 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-10 (721 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-11-01 (0 days ago) VarLogDistupgradeTermlog: ** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade vivid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1512162 Title: [Wily] do-release-upgrade crashes when kernel from ppa installed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1512162/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs