taro4cycle
May 7th, 2012, 10:14 PM
I am trying to upgrade my desktop from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 using Software Up to Date. When I click the Upgrade button I am presented with a Release Notes window so I click Upgrade. I am then prompted for a password for the system. I type in my password and click OK. The dialog box disappears. I wait for several seconds and nothing happens.
At this point, probably something failed, but I don't know where the error logs are. I'm assuming they're somewhere in /var/log.
I have applied all other updates for 11.10. I understand that the servers may be busy, so I'm willing to wait until another time. I just want to know what may be the root cause.
Incidentally, I found a post somewhere suggesting that I can do the system upgrade using the command sudo do-release-upgrade -d. When I do this, I don't see any error messages and it appears that I can go ahead using this method. However, I'd like to do the upgrade using the UI.
I can provide more details on my hardware system if that help, as I built it up myself.
Below are some other information:
$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
$ uname -a
Linux xyz 3.0.0-19-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 19 19:05:14 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Thanks.
Taro
At this point, probably something failed, but I don't know where the error logs are. I'm assuming they're somewhere in /var/log.
I have applied all other updates for 11.10. I understand that the servers may be busy, so I'm willing to wait until another time. I just want to know what may be the root cause.
Incidentally, I found a post somewhere suggesting that I can do the system upgrade using the command sudo do-release-upgrade -d. When I do this, I don't see any error messages and it appears that I can go ahead using this method. However, I'd like to do the upgrade using the UI.
I can provide more details on my hardware system if that help, as I built it up myself.
Below are some other information:
$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
$ uname -a
Linux xyz 3.0.0-19-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 19 19:05:14 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Thanks.
Taro