[Bug 878586] [NEW] Upgrading 11.04 to 11.10 failed

[Frank van der Hulst]

Public bug reported:

Upgraded to 11.10, everything seemed good. The new interface worked just
fine. I then went to software centre to install eclipse. It also wanted
to update Wine which i agreed to. At one point, the upgrade told me it
was deleting a whole lot of DLLs (50 or 70 or so). That seemed to go ok,
but now it won't boot completely. Booting gets as far as the Kubuntu
splash screen, and shows "Waiting for network configuration..." then
"Waiting up to 60 more seconds for network configuratbion..." then "
Booting system without full network configuration..." then stops.
Booting in recovery mode gets me to a usable shell but no networking.
Alt-Ctrl-sh-F1 also gets me a usable shell. It says a reboot is needed.

I also tried booting from my 10.10 rescue cd and that works, including
networking. Can't startx though... the 11.10 gui displays but doesn't
respond. Automounting usb devices also doesn't seem to work???

In the end, I gave up and did a fresh install of 10.10 on a new
partition and am using that now.

I'm pretty sure this in some way ties up with unity... maybe one of
those 50 or so DLLs was needed by the networking side of Linux?

** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Upgrading 11.04 to 11.10 failed

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Upgraded to 11.10, everything seemed good. The new interface worked
  just fine. I then went to software centre to install eclipse. It also
  wanted to update Wine which i agreed to. At one point, the upgrade
  told me it was deleting a whole lot of DLLs (50 or 70 or so). That
  seemed to go ok, but now it won't boot completely. Booting gets as far
  as the Kubuntu splash screen, and shows "Waiting for network
  configuration..." then "Waiting up to 60 more seconds for network
  configuratbion..." then " Booting system without full network
  configuration..." then stops. Booting in recovery mode gets me to a
  usable shell but no networking. Alt-Ctrl-sh-F1 also gets me a usable
  shell. It says a reboot is needed.

  I also tried booting from my 10.10 rescue cd and that works, including
  networking. Can't startx though... the 11.10 gui displays but doesn't
  respond. Automounting usb devices also doesn't seem to work???

  In the end, I gave up and did a fresh install of 10.10 on a new
  partition and am using that now.

  I'm pretty sure this in some way ties up with unity... maybe one of
  those 50 or so DLLs was needed by the networking side of Linux?

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