Hoary->Breezy upgrade problems (major)

[Art Alexion]

Howard Coles Jr. wrote:

>On Wednesday 28 December 2005 09:20, ARTHUR ALEXION wrote:
>  
>
>>I tried to upgrade from [a perfectly good] Hoary to Breezy via apt-get
>>dist-upgrade, and it initially failed.
>>
>>  Re-running apt-get dist-upgrade with the --fix-missing option resulted in
>>finally downloading and installing most of the failed packages, but still
>>an error (code 1).
>>
>>  Now when I run it I get the following errors:
>>
>>  First apt-get complains:
>>
>>  perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>>  perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>>       LANGUAGE = "en_GB:en_US:en"
>>       LC_ALL = (unset),
>>       LANG = "en_US"
>>    are supported and installed on your system.
>>  perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>>  locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory.
>>  locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or
>>directory. locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or
>>directory.
>>    
>>
>
>another correction:  The locale generation issue probably was fixed in Breezy 
>and Dapper, but was not working in your hoary setup.
>
>  
>
The problem seems to have been a gnucash library, the deb for which had
conflicting versions of the same file.  Once I did an 'apt-get remove
gnucash', the dist-upgrade resumed after the removal of gnucash and
(just about) everything completed successfully.  perl/locale stopped
complaining.  As this is an Ubuntu Warty system upgraded via apt to
hoary, and Kubuntu-desktop to Kubuntu-hoary, I had to manually
upgrade/reinstall Kubuntu-desktop via 'apt-get install
Kubuntu-desktop'.  A few minor things still need cleanup (kaffiene-xine
did not automatically install, for example) the rest seems to have gone
fine.

This was not a clean, easy upgrade, certainly not as smooth as
warty->hoary.  I intentionally waited for the bugs to work out as this
is a production machine, but apparently not long enough. 

I have a hard time accepting that dapper is in the works before major
problems with breezy remain.  Perhaps the 6 month upgrade goal should be
reconsidered.

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