[Bug 1165719] [NEW] Upgrading from Lucid to Precise trashes my system

[ullix]

Public bug reported:

Attempting to upgrade my system from Lucid to Precise using the update-
manager resulted in dozens of dependency errors - details below - , and
eventually a dead system. The installer reported "processing was halted
because there were too many errors", yet continued pretending to be
cleaning up and asked to reboot. After reboot only a black screen
resulted. The 'upgraded' computer could not be accessed by ssh, and was
not even seen on the network. Rebooting into grub showed only the old
Lucid kernels, and even selecting the repair entries only resulted in a
black screen, still nothing on the network.

Here the error messages in sequence as reported. dplu is message
'dependency problem - leaving unconfigured', other messages are spelled
out:

libsmb -- dplu
compiz-core -- dplu
libcompizconfig0 -- dplu
libxt6 -- dplu
libaudio2 -- dplu
libqtgui4 -- dplu
libphonon4 -- dplu
libqt4-opengl -- dplu
phonon-backend-gstreamer -- dplu
libqt4-declarative -- dplu
adduser -- dplu
fuse -- dplu
/var/cache/apt/archives/ntfs-3g_1%3a2012.1.15AR.1-ubuntu1.2_i386.deb -- 'pre-dependency problem - not installing ntts-3g'
e2fsprogs -- dplu
/var/cache/apt/archives/hostname_3.06ubuntu1_i386.deb -- 'pre-dependency problem - not installing hostname'
'package hostname is already installed and configured'
/var/cache/apt/archives/resolvconf_1.63ubuntu16_all.deb -- 'pre-dependency problem - not installing resolvconf'
netbase -- dplu
dbus -- dplu
libgnomevfs2-0 -- dplu
libgnomeui-0 -- dplu
libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 -- dplu
libio-socket-ssl-perl -- dplu
liblwp-protocoll-https-perl -- dplu
libwww-perl -- dplu
libfinance -- dplu
gnucash -- dplu
dbus-x11 -- dplu
'processing was halted because there were too many errors'
'cleaning'
'requiring restart'

I had saved a partition image of lucid, so I am fully recovered and back
to where I started. If there are any improvements on the upgrader I can
try again. But this is surely the worst upgrade I've ever done.

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

** Package changed: file (Ubuntu) => update-manager (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  Upgrading from Lucid to Precise trashes my system

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

Bug description:
  Attempting to upgrade my system from Lucid to Precise using the
  update-manager resulted in dozens of dependency errors - details below
  - , and eventually a dead system. The installer reported "processing
  was halted because there were too many errors", yet continued
  pretending to be cleaning up and asked to reboot. After reboot only a
  black screen resulted. The 'upgraded' computer could not be accessed
  by ssh, and was not even seen on the network. Rebooting into grub
  showed only the old Lucid kernels, and even selecting the repair
  entries only resulted in a black screen, still nothing on the network.

  Here the error messages in sequence as reported. dplu is message
  'dependency problem - leaving unconfigured', other messages are
  spelled out:

  libsmb -- dplu
  compiz-core -- dplu
  libcompizconfig0 -- dplu
  libxt6 -- dplu
  libaudio2 -- dplu
  libqtgui4 -- dplu
  libphonon4 -- dplu
  libqt4-opengl -- dplu
  phonon-backend-gstreamer -- dplu
  libqt4-declarative -- dplu
  adduser -- dplu
  fuse -- dplu
  /var/cache/apt/archives/ntfs-3g_1%3a2012.1.15AR.1-ubuntu1.2_i386.deb -- 'pre-dependency problem - not installing ntts-3g'
  e2fsprogs -- dplu
  /var/cache/apt/archives/hostname_3.06ubuntu1_i386.deb -- 'pre-dependency problem - not installing hostname'
  'package hostname is already installed and configured'
  /var/cache/apt/archives/resolvconf_1.63ubuntu16_all.deb -- 'pre-dependency problem - not installing resolvconf'
  netbase -- dplu
  dbus -- dplu
  libgnomevfs2-0 -- dplu
  libgnomeui-0 -- dplu
  libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 -- dplu
  libio-socket-ssl-perl -- dplu
  liblwp-protocoll-https-perl -- dplu
  libwww-perl -- dplu
  libfinance -- dplu
  gnucash -- dplu
  dbus-x11 -- dplu
  'processing was halted because there were too many errors'
  'cleaning'
  'requiring restart'

  I had saved a partition image of lucid, so I am fully recovered and
  back to where I started. If there are any improvements on the upgrader
  I can try again. But this is surely the worst upgrade I've ever done.

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