7.04 Upgrade not working!

[Mintsoft]

Hi,
I'm trying to upgrade the server here at work from 7.04 to 7.10 so I can then go to 8.04

trouble is, when I try to use the gksu sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade it gets stuck half way through:


rob@moodlesvr:/cdrom$ sudo sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade
can't load DistUpgradeViewGtk (No module named Common.SimpleGladeApp)
can't load DistUpgradeViewKDE (No module named qt)

Reading cache

Checking package manager
Reading package lists: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done


A fatal error occured
Please report this as a bug and include the files /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log and /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log in your report. The upgrade aborts now.
Your original sources.list was saved in /etc/apt/sources.list.distUpgrade.
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/tmp/tmp.wjhDp11193/gutsy", line 59, in <module>
app.run()

File "/tmp/tmp.wjhDp11193/DistUpgradeControler.py", line 1346, in run
self.fullUpgrade()

File "/tmp/tmp.wjhDp11193/DistUpgradeControler.py", line 1234, in fullUpgrade
if not self.prepare():

File "/tmp/tmp.wjhDp11193/DistUpgradeControler.py", line 320, in prepare
'Yes'

TypeError: askYesNoQuestion() takes exactly 3 arguments (4 given)


Any thoughts anyone?

Additionally; do-release-upgrade doesn't seem to work either :| just waits around at "Checking for a new ubuntu release"

*screams*!

-thanks
Rob

[dstew]

Did you download and burn the 7.10 Alternate Install CD, or the Live CD? The cdromupgrade script only works on the Alternate Install CD.

[Mintsoft]

The server CD, which has the script on it so I assume it works!

I think I've managed to get it going now, for some reason it needed me to install gnome :| not very servery if you ask me!

[avtolle]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GutsyUpgrades#head-f2435a45758bb5836f8e5b87e90045463f8c6ec7

Above link provides a method of upgrade from 7.04 server to 7.10 server without use of a CD (click on link for server in box on right side of screen); I used this procedure to update server edition from 6.06 to 8.04 sequentially without burning a CD at all. It was successful, but it took some time. HTH.