Upgrade from 7.10 -> 8.04 hangs as soon as it begins

[a10waveracer]

I'm currently running Ubuntu 7.10 on my Lenovo T61. Whenever I attempt to run an upgrade from either the alternate CD or from the Update Manager, I get the following:



It does not matter which way I attempt doing it--if I go through the update manager it will give me the 'update notes', download the two files, use gksu to prompt me for admin privileges and then it stalls. If I hit the 'update' button from the autorun off of the cd (or, alternatively, try "sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade") it asks me for admin and then gives that same picture again. I left it running for 8 hours last night in the vain hope that it would work.... but it didn't. Any prospective help would be awesome.

[a10waveracer]

Slight bump, but here's the image it will sometimes show when it first starts up "Distribution Upgrade"



After that, however, it just hangs on me... and that's getting old. Any ideas?

[dresen]

I was just about to make the same thread before i saw this, I am having the same issue, the upgrade manager will freeze up and never recover, here is a screenshot:

[a10waveracer]

Dresen, could you do me a favor with the following two things:
First of all, could you check and see whether you are using the "US" or the "Main" server for apt? You can figure it out in System->Administration->Software Sources.
Secondly, drop into terminal and "cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d" and tell me what, if anything, is in that folder. I have a theory I want to test... Thanks.

[dresen]

Dresen, could you do me a favor with the following two things:
First of all, could you check and see whether you are using the "US" or the "Main" server for apt? You can figure it out in System->Administration->Software Sources.
Secondly, drop into terminal and "cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d" and tell me what, if anything, is in that folder. I have a theory I want to test... Thanks.

I'm using the Main server and my sources.list.d folder is empty

[a10waveracer]

I'm using the Main server and my sources.list.d folder is empty

Well... that shoots down my theory. I'm using US and have things in that folder. Have you tried the alternate cd route?

[dresen]

Well... that shoots down my theory. I'm using US and have things in that folder. Have you tried the alternate cd route?

not yet, but that's the plan

[mathenge]

I'm currently running Ubuntu 7.10 on my Lenovo T61. Whenever I attempt to run an upgrade from either the alternate CD or from the Update Manager, I get the following:



It does not matter which way I attempt doing it--if I go through the update manager it will give me the 'update notes', download the two files, use gksu to prompt me for admin privileges and then it stalls. If I hit the 'update' button from the autorun off of the cd (or, alternatively, try "sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade") it asks me for admin and then gives that same picture again. I left it running for 8 hours last night in the vain hope that it would work.... but it didn't. Any prospective help would be awesome.

A lot of people have been having this problem. It's HUGE with this upgrade. I had the same problem all day Friday (April 25th). Most people thought it was due to servers being too busy, but I checked by manually using FTP or HTTP to connect, and was able to copy files.

In any case, I was able to work around that particular problem with a hack. I saw a post so please follow with utmost discretion. Here goes.

In my case, when the "Distribution Upgrade" dialog froze, I had to manually kill it. I did this by checking the running processes. In my instance, running the command:
ps aux | grep python
revealed a process that looked something like:
/usr/bin/pygthon /tmp/tmpXgyyZ/hardy
So I killed that process and the dialog went away.

Checking /etc/apt, I discovered that my sources.list file had already been converted to hardy sources so my update manager was going nuts and informing me that I had over 500 updates pending. Fortunately, I had a backup of /etc/apt/sources.list and copied that to restore sanity.

Anyway, once restoring sources.list, I ran the following command:

sudo /usr/bin/python /tmp/tmpXgyyZ/hardy --frontend=DistUpgradeViewText --mode=desk

(all on one line)

This will fire up the installation, in text mode.

In my case, the upgrade completed and I was able to login to Hardy. My main problems after that were mostly Video related (nvidia card), wireless NIC confusion as well as driver clashes.

[a10waveracer]

Well, that didn't work, but maybe now we're getting somewhere. This is the error I now get:

2008-04-26 17:19:58,939 INFO release-upgrader version '0.87.24' started
2008-04-26 17:19:58,940 DEBUG Using 'DistUpgradeViewText' view
2008-04-26 17:19:58,996 ERROR not handled expection:
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/tmp/tmp.nbIPCS7684/hardy", line 59, in <module>
app = DistUpgradeController(view, options)

File "/tmp/tmp.nbIPCS7684/DistUpgradeController.py", line 145, in __init__
self.sources_backup_ext = "."+self.config.get("Files","BackupExt")

File "ConfigParser.py", line 511, in get
raise NoSectionError(section)

NoSectionError: No section: 'Files'

[Tilos]

I've attached an image of how far I get using the graphical update manager and the output from running apt-get clean, apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade.