Last night (about 12 hours ago) I began the auto upgrade to 13.10 (from 13.04). All seems to have gone well until the screen arrived at "installing upgrades" and "preparing to configure xorg."

The screen then greyed out and froze. the terminal entry at the end is:
"unpacking replacement ubuntu.docs..."

I have not closed the system down and it is working around it at the moment - experience tells me that might just exacerbate the problem.

In any case, I do not want to go on one step without knowing something about what i should be doing. I see there have been problems with xorg and i am wondering if that might be part of the difficulty? If not, what then and what can be done to restore the system to health?

Cheers,

Frank Sirett

I had a vaguely similar experience in upgrading to 12.04 LTS (where I am today). I found that I failed to click on a box that I think was labeled "details", which opens a terminal-like interactive window. It turned out the installer was waiting for me to answer a question. I have long since forgotten the question, but I don't think it had anything to do with xorg.

If this was no help, consider inquiring at

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu

I am afraid I had no such dialogue box. I did look and found nothing.

My system actually closed on me and claimed it had upgraded, but refused to load as normal. I am now running from a live disk (13.10 so I know it DOES work with my system) and find I have all my files intact, just a problem actually getting the system to boot properly.

I have decided to hive off the major files to another disk and recofigure so I can put my system and home files on different partitions and do a clean reinstall.

It looks as if this is a common(?) pronlem with upgrading from the automated system and may be defeated with a clean reinstall every six months. This is not a problem, being a refugee from Windows and being more than familiar with major problems requiring that interminable rebuilding of the system every time... and those times came all to frequently and at the least convenient moments.

I strongly suspect that my problems (with Ubuntu) are self inflicted for the most part (unlike Windows) and it is only by the good graces of the participants of thse forus that I find myself so secure when those problems come around.

FYI: The problem thrown up on booting is "Kernel Panic - not syncing: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0,0)" but if it were not that, it might well be something else. I am coming to believe, rather than upgrade and repair my best solution is to install fresh after trying the system from a disk to ensurre there is no serious problem

Thanks for the time and trouble, I hope my paltry contribution helps others in some poor way

Cheers

Frank Sirett