Upgrade to 8.10: "Upgrade failed" maybe... How to check

**Mr_JMM** · October 30th, 2008

Hi,

Sorry, this is going to be an incredibly vague thread but I hope someone can make sense of it.

I have just upgraded (??) from Hardy to Intrepid. I did this using the update manager (as per this thread). Right at the end I got an error message saying that the upgrade could not be completed. Sorry but I didn't get a chance to note the exact message but I'm sure it said that the upgrade will not happen. However, when I check using lsb_release -a I get:

Code:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 8.10
Release:	8.10
Codename:	intrepid

I appreciate that that should be that but after the error message is there any way to double check everything or better still, some way of running a "repair" install from a CD?

Additionally, I also got a window asking for Nullmailer which I have no idea about. I just hit forward. I also got an error message about the ufw failing to install.

Many thanks as always

James

**Partyboi2** · October 30th, 2008

Open a terminal and try

Code:

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

**Partyboi2** · October 30th, 2008

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**Mr_JMM** · October 30th, 2008

Hi,

Ok, here is the results:

Code:

xxxxx@yyyy-ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
[sudo] password for xxxxx: 
xxxxx@yyyy-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
xxxxx@yyyy-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
xxxxx@yyyy-ubuntu:~$

Does this confirm all is ok? Is this the only check? What about the "repair" option?

Many thanks again

**kostkon** · October 30th, 2008

Originally Posted by Mr_JMM

Hi,

Sorry, this is going to be an incredibly vague thread but I hope someone can make sense of it.

I have just upgraded (??) from Hardy to Intrepid. I did this using the update manager (as per this thread). Right at the end I got an error message saying that the upgrade could not be completed. Sorry but I didn't get a chance to note the exact message but I'm sure it said that the upgrade will not happen. However, when I check using lsb_release -a I get:

Code:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 8.10
Release:	8.10
Codename:	intrepid

I appreciate that that should be that but after the error message is there any way to double check everything or better still, some way of running a "repair" install from a CD?

Additionally, I also got a window asking for Nullmailer which I have no idea about. I just hit forward. I also got an error message about the ufw failing to install.

Many thanks as always

James

Everything looks OK.

Don't worry about the

Code:

No LSB modules are available.

it is not an error message that should worry you. We all get it when we give the above command.

Now about ufw, give in a terminal

Code:

apt-cache policy ufw

and see if it says that is installed and it is the latest version. But since sudo dpkg --configure -a does not give you any errors then you should be fine.

No clue about NullMailer...

**Mr_JMM** · October 31st, 2008

Hi,

Results of apt-cache policy ufw:

Code:

ufw:
  Installed: 0.23.2
  Candidate: 0.23.2
  Version table:
 *** 0.23.2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Many thanks