Hardy heron upgrade

Hardy Heron upgrade status, as it happens

April 24, Hardy Heron is released. All times in Pacific daylight time.

11:00am Ran update-manger -d

11:05am Accepted license, downloading the upgrade tool (1 mirror failure so far)

11:35am Third-party sources disabled for the upgrade.

11:38am Eeek, some applications are no longer supported by Canonical, 
        including courier-imap, xmms, xvnc.  If I want to continue using those packages, 
        I need to enable community support.  Here is the full list it came up with for
        my machine:

binfmt-support
console-common
console-data
courier-authdaemon
courier-base
courier-imap
courier-imap-ssl
courier-ssl
doc-debian
evms
evms-ncurses
gcj-4.1-base
gij-4.1
gnome-cups-manager
gtkhtml3.8
irssi-text
libasn1-6-heimdal
libcompfaceg1
libconvert-binhex-perl
libdvdnav4
libdvdread3
libevms-2.5
libfinance-quote-perl
libgcj7-jar
libgda2-3
libgda2-common
libglib1.2
libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a
libgnucrypto-java
libgssapi4-heimdal
libgtk1.2
libgtk1.2-common
libhtml-tableextract-perl
libjaxp1.2-java
libkrb5-17-heimdal
liblzo1
libmailtools-perl
libmime-perl
libnet-dns-perl
libnet-ip-perl
libnetcdf3
libpq4
libroken16-heimdal
libxml1
menu-xdg
pmount
python-eunuchs
python-gadfly
python-htmltmpl
python-kjbuckets
python-netcdf
python-pgsql
python-soappy
python-sqlite
python-stats
python-syck
reportbug
ttf-baekmuk
vnc-common
xmms
xvncviewer

11:40am Do you want to start the upgrade?  It will take 2 hours and 27 minutes from 
        this point and once the download is complete, you cannot cancel.

12:36pm Still downloading packages.  It estimates completion in 19 hours.

 2:29pm Downloading 616 of 1575 packages.  It appears to be stalled.  It has 
        no prediction for completion.

 2:33pm Estimated completion in 6 hours.  It looks like other people are still
        using courier-imap with Hardy Heron.  I just have to make sure I don't
        let the installer remove those packages.  Then I can figure out what a 
        supported replacement is on my own time.

 3:09pm Downloading 717 of 1575.  Estimated completion in 5 hours.

 4:13pm Downloading 900 of 1575.  Estimated completion in 4 hours.
 
 8:25pm Downloads complete.  Installing and configuring.

 8:28pm The upgrade will continue but the
        '/var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.14.16.6ubuntu3_amd64.deb' package may be in
        a not working state. Please consider submitting a bugreport about it.

 8:30pm A fatal error occured

        Please report this as a bug (if you haven't already) and include thefiles
        /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log and /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log in your
        report. The upgrade aborts now.
        Your original sources.list was saved in /etc/apt/sources.list.distUpgrade.

Huh? Now what? My machine is still running. I guess not much, if anything has actually been installed. I guess I try again later.

/var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log

The full log is gigantic. Here are just the ERROR lines:

2008-04-24 11:21:18,215 ERROR IOError/SystemError in cache.update(): 'Failed to fetch http://ubuntu.compiz.net/dists/dapper/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 302 Found
2008-04-24 11:21:18,215 ERROR doUpdate() failed completely
2008-04-24 20:27:06,756 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: '/var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.14.16.6ubuntu3_amd64.deb': 'installing dpkg would break apt, and
2008-04-24 20:27:06,758 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: '/var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.14.16.6ubuntu3_amd64.deb': 'installing dpkg would break apt, and
2008-04-24 20:29:30,622 ERROR not handled expection:
2008-04-24 20:29:30,623 ERROR failed to import apport python module, can't report bug: No module named apport.python_hook

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Second try

On April 25, I tried again by downloading the alternate cdrom for amd64 Hardy Heron

7:57pm Inserted the cd and tried to launch cdromupgrade, but got this error:

root@weasel:/media/cdrom0# sh ./cdromupgrade
tar: ./dists/stable/main/dist-upgrader/binary-all//hardy.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Could not find the upgrade application in the archive, exiting

The error appears to be a lie. The file hardy.tar.gz does exist where it should on the CD:

root@weasel:/media/cdrom0/dists/stable/main/dist-upgrader/binary-all# ls -l
total 672
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 687228 Apr 22 00:30 hardy.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root root    191 Apr 22 01:12 hardy.tar.gz.gpg