Upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 FAILED !!! Pls help !!!

[kkfok1]

I have problem to upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 (using the CD burned with downloaded 386-iso, have check md5sum which is correct)

The error that I had found in the var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log are as following :

Any advise to solve this is very much appreciated.

Thanks

2010-05-01 13:47:16,297 INFO Using config files '['./DistUpgrade.cfg.hardy']'
2010-05-01 13:47:16,297 INFO uname information: 'Linux blissful 2.6.24-27-generic #1 SMP Wed Mar 24 10:04:52 UTC 2010 i686'
2010-05-01 13:47:16,297 INFO creating state file with '['tar', '-z', '-c', '-f', '/var/log/dist-upgrade/system_state.tar.gz', '/etc/apt/sources.list', '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/', '/var/lib/dpkg/status']'
2010-05-01 13:47:16,474 INFO release-upgrader version '0.134.7' started
2010-05-01 13:47:16,729 DEBUG svg pixbuf loader failed (Error displaying image)
2010-05-01 13:47:16,729 ERROR html widget
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/tmp.blmGi13183/DistUpgradeViewGtk.py", line 404, in __init__
import webkit
ImportError: No module named webkit
2010-05-01 13:47:16,743 DEBUG Using 'DistUpgradeViewGtk' view



(some logs in between)



2010-05-01 13:47:42,392 DEBUG doUpdate() will not use the network because self.useNetwork==false
2010-05-01 13:47:42,393 DEBUG openCache()
2010-05-01 13:47:42,771 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 2289
2010-05-01 13:47:42,771 DEBUG needServerMode(): run in 'desktop' mode, (because of pkg 'ubuntu-desktop')
2010-05-01 13:48:24,805 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.'
2010-05-01 13:48:24,805 DEBUG abort called
2010-05-01 13:48:24,807 DEBUG openCache()
2010-05-01 13:48:27,829 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 25405
2010-05-01 13:48:27,830 DEBUG enabling apt cron job

[kkfok1]

BTW, I have already used update manager to have the 8.04 system up todate.

[kkfok1]

I checked the alternate iso file was dated 27th April, was this the problem ?

[kkfok1]

Hello, can someone please help !

Thanks

[kkfok1]

What is happening ? Seems there is no one care about this ?

[pgmer6809]

I was about to do the same thing. Now I won't. My problem is that I am not sure how to do the alternative of a fresh install without losing too much of what I have now.

I dont have an answer for your problem other than to say that:
In the past I have been advised against skipping generations.
This should have been fixed. Obviously an LTS user is not going to want to have to install the intermediate distros to get from one LTS distro to the next.
Maybe you can contact the Ubuntu support page (Canonical not just the forums) on this.

1) Advice elsewhere is to steer clear of dist-upgrade. There seem to be lots of problems with it.
2) Same advice says to:
a) back everything up. I am guessing this means /home, If you backup and restore /etc and so on, how will you restore them without overwriting the new stuff?
That being the case you probably do want to make a record of the packages you have on your current system so that you can automatically re-install them after the fresh Lynx install.

b) install new system from scratch.

c) Restore from backup

d) restore packages.

3) To save the list of packages you now have, do this:


dpkg --get-selections > installed-software

And if you wanted to use the list to reinstall this software on a fresh ubuntu setup,



dpkg --set-selections < installed-software

followed by



dselect

4. If you want to try one more time with the dist-upgrade feature, you can try this from the cmd line (again based on another thread. I have not tried this myself.):
(Best to do backups first though. /home, the package list etc. as above.)

switch into super user.

sudo su
cd /etc/apt/
cp sources.list sources.list.hardy.backup
sed -e 's/hardy/lucid/' sources.list >>sources.list.lucid
cp sources.list.lucid sources.list
apt-get clean
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
exit

good luck.

[kkfok1]

Hi pgmer6809,

Thank you for taking time reponse to my problem and I'll consider your suggestion carefully -- fresh installation.

I have posted this to launchpad but did not receive any replies. Seems that Ubuntu team are so busy to solve the 10.04 problems. :(

[gannite6364]

Sorry i have not replyed to your post before only just seen it. Your problem is that you can not upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04. You can only do it one step at a time ie from 8.04 to 9.04 and so on.

[jmaryinchina]

It looks like you have some packages you have installed manually which are making problems.

I suggest that you fix everything from the terminal from now and forget about the update manager.


First of all, provide the file /etc/apt/sources.list here to check if the sources.list refers now to lucid or if it is still referring to 8.04.
If you are sure about the above, no need to transmit here the sources.list. Proceed the following command :
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
copy paste the result here, thus we can see in detail what is going on.

[jmaryinchina]

Sorry i have not replyed to your post before only just seen it. Your problem is that you can not upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04. You can only do it one step at a time ie from 8.04 to 9.04 and so on.
gannite6364 : you said something wrong. Upgrades are possible from an LTS version to another LTS version.

[gannite6364]

Yes sorry about that was not thinking straight.

[kkfok1]

It looks like you have some packages you have installed manually which are making problems.

I suggest that you fix everything from the terminal from now and forget about the update manager.


First of all, provide the file /etc/apt/sources.list here to check if the sources.list refers now to lucid or if it is still referring to 8.04.
If you are sure about the above, no need to transmit here the sources.list. Proceed the following command :
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
copy paste the result here, thus we can see in detail what is going on.

Output of sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade


Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 10.04 _Lucid Lynx_ - Beta i386 (20100318) lucid/main Translation-en_US
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 10.04 _Lucid Lynx_ - Beta i386 (20100318) lucid/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://apt.wicd.net hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://apt.wicd.net hardy/extras Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Translation-en_US
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release [27.6kB]
Get:2 http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy Release.gpg [197B]
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/free Translation-en_US
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release.gpg
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release
Hit http://winff.org hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://winff.org hardy/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://apt.wicd.net hardy Release
Get:3 http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy Release [11.7kB]
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Translation-en_US
Get:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release [27.6kB]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release
Hit http://download.virtualbox.org hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release
Hit http://winff.org hardy Release
Ign http://apt.wicd.net hardy/extras Packages
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release
Ign http://download.virtualbox.org hardy/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://apt.wicd.net hardy/extras Packages
Hit http://winff.org hardy/universe Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Sources
Hit http://download.virtualbox.org hardy Release
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/free Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
Hit http://download.virtualbox.org hardy/non-free Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/non-free Packages
Fetched 11.9kB in 3s (3798B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
build-essential dpkg-dev g++
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

[kkfok1]

Finally, I have to reinstall Lucid instead of using the Alternate CD to upgrade.

[satish_j]

Iam facing the same issue..And feeling very sad that No solution has been found for it so far:(:(