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12.04 LTS: upgrade to 14.04 LTS failed, half-ready state

Hello everyone,

I use Ubuntu (LTS-versions) on my laptop "Thinkpad T60p", and last evening I wanted (finally) upgrade my installtion (12.04) to 14.04.3. During the upgrade (which usually ran very smoothly and pain free) I got several error messages, then it said that the upgrade was over, and I restarted the laptop. Linux booted in text mode (no Gnome).

Today I investigated the situation, and found out the following:
- there are a lot of unresolved dependencies in the upgrade;
- when I try to execute "apt-get -f upgrade", it starts to download, but then I receive a message, saying that there is no place on the drive (there are something like 1,7 GB available), and upgrade stops;
- when I try to release some space (by deleting old/unused kernels, for instance), I cannot do it - due to the unresolved dependencies.

I'm not really newbie to Linux, but at the present I have no idea, how to resolve this issue. I would appreciate any hint, in which direction I should go.

Regards from Hamburg/Germany,
Andrey.

Are you deleting the kernels using the package manager, and if so, are you also deleting the configuration files? They can account for a good deal of space.

And FWIW, my fresh install of 14.04.3 shows a good many differences from an equally fresh install of 14.04.2, so there has been a great deal of evolution even between those two, let alone from 12.04.

If you've saved your personal files separately, you might consider a fresh install of a 14.04.3 iso.

SuSE_Lamer,

I second albinard's suggestion to do a fresh installation.

I hope you did a BACKUP of all your personal data before you did the upgrade.

If not, then boot from a Live Ubuntu DVD and recover (copy/paste) your files to an external hard drive.

Hello @everyone,

I mount my "/home" onto separated partition of the drive, so my documents are safe. I also was thinking about fresh reinstall, but this would be a last solution for me.

I want to try to remove all old kernels using "apt-get" with "ignore-dependencies" flag, so that I simply get some free space there. And then I will try to reinstall/re-upgrade 14.04 using "apt-get". I hope, this will work.

Regards,
Andrey.

Quote:

Originally Posted by beachboy2 (Post 5407561)

Hello,
to solve the issue, I had to resize my "/"-partition to gain more disk space. Upgrade ran through, and I have "only" 2 open issues:
1) somehow my NTFS-partition with Windows data doesn't get mounted via "fstab";
2) my GNOME-session doesn't start, when I enter my login and password;

Not nice, but I think, those issues are resolvable.

Greetings from hamburg,
Andrey.