Upgrading from 14.04 to 15.10 and wont finish

[Clanstyles]

After apt-get upgrade was running it froze on "Setting up keyboard-configuration" I checked error logs, dpkg.log had:

2016-03-12 12:30:42 startup packages configure
2016-03-12 12:30:42 configure keyboard-configuration:all 1.108ubuntu9 <none>
2016-03-12 12:30:42 status half-configured keyboard-configuration:all 1.108ubuntu9

I can't figure out why it's not finishing or what to do. Any ideas?

[grahammechanical]

What state is the installation in now? If the upgrade has not finished, have you shut down and re-started? Or, do you still have an incomplete upgrade that is still frozen?

What you do will all depend on what you have already done. If you have backed up your data then you have a little less worry if a restart ends up with a completely unusable system.

If the restart loads to any kind of working desktop environment we can run

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

And that might finish the upgrade. We can also at the boot menu select Advanced options for Ubuntu and then select recovery mode. At the recovery menu we can select Network to set up an internet connection and then select Root shell prompt and then run

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade

To get back to the recovery menu we type enter and then we can select Resume and see if that gets us to a working desktop. There is one more thing we can do. We can prepare ourselves for the last resort of a fresh install.

Regards.

[Clanstyles]

I upgraded via the recommended upgrade popup. So via the package manager i assume. I'm able to boot into 15.10 but I'm not able to manage my packages since it didn't finish configuring a few packages (the keyboard is the one getting stuck).

[kansasnoob]

Try:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

[Clanstyles]

I'm getting

/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: keyboard-configuration is broken or not fully installed

[kansasnoob]

OK, you're going to have to try some things and be sure to post back here any errors. It may also be neccessary to repeat any number of these commands in no specific order. To start:

sudo apt-get update

Next we'll try --fix-broken and/or --fix-missing suffixes which can be used both with dist-upgrade or with a specific package like:

sudo apt-get install keyboard-configuration --fix-missing

Or:

sudo apt-get install keyboard-configuration --fix-broken

Or with dist-upgrade like:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing

Or:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-broken

A lesser used, and seldom helpful suffix is --ignore-missing. But it's seldom helpful although once in a while it can break a log jam long enough to get other packages installed and/or upgraded.

Another helpful command is:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

And yet another is:

sudo apt-get -f install

And, as I already said, you may need to repeat any of those in no specific order. If apt-get update shows any errors at all that will prevent you from going any further so let us know.

[kansasnoob]

What method did you use to upgrade?

[kansasnoob]

Possibly this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...p/+bug/1509392

[sammiev]

sudo apt-get update

This is what kansasnoob suggested.

[kansasnoob]

sudo apt-get update

This is what kansasnoob suggested.

+1! I'd listed it first in my post #8 because if that shows any errors at all then we need to find out why. Basically if the software cache can't update properly then we can't expect any other package transaction to work properly.