Breezy -> Dapper Problems

[jhollon]

I have two computers which were running Breezy well Now, after upgrading, they aren't running so well The computers are:

1) desktop (custom)
piii 1ghz, 512ram, 3dfx vd3
and
2) an hp ze4300 laptop. amd athlonxp 1.8, ati vid, 1gb ram

During the upgrade process (during the "installing and downloading files" portion) both systems brought up an error that some (unknown) gnome process had suddenly terminated. This error caused the installations to pause, but not quit (after clicking 'OK' they simply went on with the upgrade). After this problem (which seemed to go away) they did the following:

1) The desktop continued on for awhile, and then with ~8 mins left to go it stopped. The computer brought up an error saying that some packages could not be found, and then the installation program aborted (just shut down). I restarted the computer, it seemed to load up OK (a little bit slower than before), and seems to work. Problems: the downloaded files, for the upgrade, were not "cleaned up" (it aborted before that step, so I have ~1.2GB of installation files on here), and at least one program (kdevelop/gcc) no longer is able to compile sources (c++ files for a class I'm in). Also, when switching to the shell now (ctrl alt f1-6) my monitor says: "out of range".

2) The laptop went through the entire process- made it to the cleaning up files section and all. It asked me to reboot, and I told it to go ahead. After rebooting it came to the login screen, as expected, however, will not log in. Others have reported this error too (the xserver crashes, jumps to the shell, and then restarts gdm). I tried logging into kde, gnome, and xfce- all do the same action (restart gdm). As suggested elsewhere, I have also tried changing the xorg.conf driver from "ati" to "vesa" with no luck _and_ have tried to reconfigure gdm and the xserver (also in another post on the boards).

Just putting this up here to let others know they might want to wait a bit until solutions are found.

Jeff Hollon

{UPDATE}
On the desktop, when I try to install/uninstall a program through synaptic I get this:

E: clvm: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 3
E: redhat-cluster-suite: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: system-config-cluster: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

[llamakc]

On Debian-based distros you can clean out old downloaded packages with `apt-get clean` and you can always continue the aborted upgrade by repeated the command/action that you were stuck on.

With the heavy traffic its more likely that the packages just 'timed out'. I'd rerun Synaptic or Update Manager or apt-get from the commandline and let it finish.

The command `apt-get -f install` can be helpful in these sort of situations. Good luck.

[jhollon]

Hey, good news. I fixed the problem with the xserver crashes.
I started the system, and tried to log in one more time (it restarted as before). So I tried this:

sudo apt-get upgrade

It said that there were 3 incomplete packages (for installation). I told it to continue, and it installed them fine. When I went back to the login screen (ctrl alt f7 and then restarted it with ctrl alt backspace) it allowed me to log in. So, upgrade and then restart the xserver.

[rcarring]

Just a tip, although it takes longer to download the iso image, you won't have to worry about the network timing out during the install, as you will have all the required files on the cd you burn and use.

Obviously, this comment is pretty meaningless right now if the servers are busy but I expect they will become more reponsive as the hiatus surrounding the new release dies down again.

[skylornova]

Forgive the noob question, but I have not been able to find instructions on how to upgrade from the CD. I searched the forums and google and didn't come up with anything. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance

[llamakc]

So you are running Breezy and downloaded and burned the Dapper ISO?

run `sudo apt-cdrom add` or something like that and then upgrade with Synaptic.

[jhollon]

This is with regards to my desktop (the laptop is working!).

As I said above, I can not install or uninstall anything from apt-get/synaptic. Here is the error when I use sudo apt-get upgrade:

:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Setting up clvm (2.02.02-1ubuntu1) ...
Starting Cluster LVM Daemon clvmd could not connect to cluster manager
Consult syslog for more information
invoke-rc.d: initscript clvm, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing clvm (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 3
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of redhat-cluster-suite:
redhat-cluster-suite depends on clvm; however:
Package clvm is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing redhat-cluster-suite (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of system-config-cluster:
system-config-cluster depends on redhat-cluster-suite; however:
Package redhat-cluster-suite is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing system-config-cluster (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
clvm
redhat-cluster-suite
system-config-cluster
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any help would be appreciated.

[ubuntu_demon]

try this :
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=186672

[jhollon]

I tried a lot of the things on that linking site. I still get the same error (here is what happens when I try to do any of those commands, though this is specifically for the remove command):

:~$ sudo apt-get remove clvm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
clvm
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 487kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 166449 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing clvm ...
Stopping Cluster LVM Daemon invoke-rc.d: initscript clvm, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing clvm (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting Cluster LVM Daemon clvmd could not connect to cluster manager
Consult syslog for more information
invoke-rc.d: initscript clvm, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 3
Errors were encountered while processing:
clvm
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Also, regarding the problem with my monitor reporting "out of range" when switching to bash: My roommate fixed the problem by removing the ubuntu splash/booting up-screen from grub (at least that's what he said he did, he knows a lot more about linux than I do since he built his gentoo system). I thought it might have been something with my video card, but then realized that the drivers and such aren't even loaded at this point (on bootup or in bash)? Not a big deal though.

[ubuntu_demon]

Don't remove anything related to LVM if you are using LVM.If you are using it you would know. Otherwise go ahead :

go to ctrl-alt-f1 and remove all packages that give errors and/or dependencies problems.

Try the -f switch :

$sudo apt-get remove clvm -f