[Bug 1314955] Re: Kubuntu 14.04 upgrade failed

[Horace Cope]

Well, I used my Mac to download the latest Kubuntu, OpenSuse & Mint
flavours of Linux and burnt them to dvds, then repartitioned my Linux
box's hard drive into three (using gparted, just resizing the original
partition so it didn't lose the data) and installed all of these so it
triple-boots and I can play with all of them.  Kubuntu installed fine
from the dvd, and fortunately seems to have kept my home files, so
nothing lost.  OpenSuse installed ok but screwed up Grub so it would
only boot into OpenSuse, then finally I added Mint, which installed
perfectly and corrected Grub at the same time so it now triple-boots
(prompts me at startup for which one to use).  I've been trying all
three for about a week now, and must say I'm impressed with Mint the
most.  Anyway, I'm back in action, so this log can be closed off I guess
(though still annoying that it crashed like that oin the first place,
however it gave me the push I needed to go play around with other Linux
distros, so maybe it was a good thing!).  :-)

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Title:
  Kubuntu 14.04 upgrade failed

Status in “ubuntu-release-upgrader” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  System notification said a new version of Kubuntu is available, so I let it try to upgrade. Automatic ditribution upgrade said it had several hours left to run so I left it going.  When I came back, it has a red square with a white cross in it and the message : Could not install the upgrades.  The upgrade has aborted.  Your system could be in an unusable state.  A recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a).  I clicked on Report Bug and it brought me here.  No other error messages seem to be present.  I know this is not very informative, but that's all I appear to have in the way of details, doesn't say what exactly went wrong?
  Current relese : Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (according to lsb_release -rd)
  apt-cache policy pkgname says unable to locate package pkgname.
  I expected it to upgrade to 14.04 from whatever it was on before (how do I tell now it's screwed up?) - it was up to date with the usual updates last time I switched it on, so whatever the previous version of Kubuntu was.  Off to try a reboot now and see if it recovers...

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