On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 08:35 -0300, vododo wrote: > I tried to upgrade to ubuntu 10.04 and I had several problems. > I used the save-upgrade method. Once it was done, GNOME didn't start.
As others have said, upgrading with apt-get or aptitude is not the recommended method. The recommended method is explained here (which is linked from the announcement page for the new release): http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading That said, it should be possible to upgrade with apt-get/aptitude if you somewhat know what you are doing, and with some massaging you should be able to recover. First of all, "aptitude safe-upgrade" can never work for a full distribution upgrade, because this method is guaranteed not to remove packages (which is why it is safe), but exactly this is certainly needed during a distribution upgrade. I'd recommend you try the following (I have gone through the list repeatedly and tried to avoid any errors, but please think for yourself and do not follow it blindly): 1. Backup your valuable data if that's still an option. If you cannot do this, then accept that if you make mistakes, I cannot guarantee that your data will survive. If you cannot accept this, get qualified help (there may be an Ubuntu release party near you that offers support; if free support is not available, get paid support) 2. Read this (on another computer, print it out if necessary): http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004 3. Make sure you understand whether the release notes indicate that you need to do anything manually (that is, stuff that would have been performed automatically had you used the recommended method). 4. Since X does not work, log into your machine on the text terminal 5. Make sure that your /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* files are all correctly changed for 10.04 (lucid). Disable all third-party sources by commenting them out. 6. Run "sudo aptitude update". 7. Run "sudo aptitude full-upgrade" (note the full- instead of safe-, which allows aptitude to remove packages). 8. If it exits without any errors, go to step 15. Otherwise, run it again. Repeat until it finishes successfully. If it does, go to step 15, if it does not, repeat until its output is the same as it was on the previous run and go to step 9. 9. Run "sudo dpkg --configure -a" and "sudo apt-get install --fix-broken" repeatedly until either command's output is the same as it was on the previous run. 10. For good measure, try steps 7 and 8 some more. 11. If the error messages indicate that dpkg gets stuck during installation due to conflicts, read "man dpkg" and study the --force-things options carefully. Then run the required "sudo dpkg --force-things" command. This can be dangerous to your system if you don't know what you are doing. 12. Repeat step 7 and if needed through to step 11. 13. At some point "sudo aptitude full-upgrade" should finish cleanly. 14. Run "sudo aptitude install ubuntu-desktop". This package is required to ensure that 10.04 (Lucid) is fully installed. It can be removed when you are fully done, if you do not want to run the full Ubuntu desktop for some reason. If it runs cleany, good. Otherwise try to fix errors as before. 15. Reboot and hope. 16. If X runs, you are nearly done. Run "sudo aptitude safe-upgrade". If this command has errors, you should now be proficient enough with aptitude, apt-get and dpkg to figure it out, or you need to get more help. 17. Reenable your third-party sources (change them to lucid). Run "sudo aptitude update" and install what you need. Also, this is not the support list, as others have pointed out. Please direct future support requests to the given links. You may also email me personally, but please provide the exact error messages you get during the upgrade, and the appropriate log files from /var/log, depending on where the failure is (if X and therefore gdm do not start, /var/log/Xorg.0.log is a good start) Regards Mario -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
