24.04 Upgrade Issues

[Jay Ridgley]

On 12/5/24 07:42, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 at 14:26, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>> The standard message that is displayed when NEW software is available
>> asking if you wish to upgrade now or later.
> 
> Ah, OK. And you did the GUI-based version upgrade?

Yes, that is what I initially started with.
> 
>> The screen went blank and the system rebooted. No message, nothing but
>> when it stopped I had a blinking cursor on the screen, NOTHING else.
> 
> No prompt, no GRUB, no bootloader, nothing?
>
NOTHING on the screen but a blinking underscore cursor.

> No change if you power-cycled it?

Did not try that.

> 
>> 1st: sudo apt --fix-broken-install
>> 2nd: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
> 
> OK.
> 
> #2 should really be:
> 
> sudo apt full-upgrade -y
> 
> It may still be worth doing that now. It does a more thorough job.
> 
>> That ran to completion leaving me with a blinking cursor on the screen.
> 
> As in, in the terminal after the usual prompt?

YES
> 
>>> What does this mean? What's "did a manual upgrade"? What did you type?
>>> What happened?
>>
>> See above...
> 
> Aha.
> 
> The 2 commands above will not _upgrade_ Ubuntu from one version to the
> next. They will only stay on the current version but update all the
> programs to the latest releases _in the same version_.
> 
>>>> I poked around
>>>
>>> At what, where, how?
>>
>> Various combinations of ctrl, alt, F1 ... F7
> 
> Ah, right.
> 
>>>> and finally was presented
>>>> with a GUI login.
> 
> So it was there, but the machine was on the wrong virtual console?
> 
> You didn't log in to the console in text mode and "poke around"
> reinstalling things?
> 
>> I have no idea which one worked.
>>>
>>> How? What desktop? What display server? What GPU? What drivers?
>>>
>>>> After doing a login from there I was able to get all
>>>> my workspaces up(4) and several applications scattered around them.
> 
> In which desktop? Just curious...

GNOME
> 
>> I am sorry but I did not take any notes. I am using the default desktop.
>> How do I find out what one that is? If you need that.
> 
> It depends on which version of Ubuntu but for any recent release from
> the last decade that means GNOME.
> 
> Which usually has an infinite scrolling strip of virtual desktops, not
> just 4, which is what confused me. But I do not use GNOME myself.
> 
>> I have NOT done a reboot to see what happens....
> 
> I suggest doing the full upgrade I mention above then rebooting.
> 
> 

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