Hardy heron upgrade
From Finninday
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
/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log
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
Third try
root@weasel:~# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: binutils cpp cpp-4.2 g++ g++-4.2 gcc gcc-4.2 libapr1 libaprutil1 libarchive-dev libarchive1 libc6-dev libc6-i386 libdb4.6 libflac8 libgnutls13 libgomp1 libkeyutils1 libkrb53 libldap-2.4-2 liblzo2-2 libmysqlclient15off libopencdk10 libpq5 libsasl2 libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules libsqlite3-0 libssl-dev libssl0.9.8 libstdc++6-4.2-dev libtasn1-3 libvorbis-dev libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libvorbisfile3 linux-libc-dev mod-musicindex-common mysql-common postfix postfix-mysql zlib1g zlib1g-dev Suggested packages: binutils-doc cpp-doc gcc-4.2-locales g++-multilib g++-4.2-multilib gcc-4.2-doc libstdc++6-4.2-dbg automake1.9 bison flex gcc-doc gcc-multilib manpages-dev gcc-4.2-multilib libgcc1-dbg libgomp1-dbg libmudflap0-4.2-dbg libmudflap0-4.2-dev glibc-doc gnutls-bin krb5-doc krb5-user libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit libsasl2-modules-gssapi-heimdal libsasl2-modules-ldap libsasl2-modules-otp libsasl2-modules-sql libstdc++6-4.2-doc postfix-cdb postfix-ldap postfix-pcre postfix-pgsql resolvconf The following packages will be REMOVED: apache2 g++-4.0 gcc-4.0 ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk ia32-libs-openoffice.org libapache2-mod-musicindex libstdc++6-4.0-dev linux-kernel-headers The following NEW packages will be installed: cpp-4.2 g++-4.2 gcc-4.2 libapr1 libaprutil1 libdb4.6 libflac8 libgnutls13 libgomp1 libkeyutils1 libldap-2.4-2 liblzo2-2 libopencdk10 libpq5 libsasl2-2 libstdc++6-4.2-dev libtasn1-3 linux-libc-dev The following packages will be upgraded: binutils cpp g++ gcc libarchive-dev libarchive1 libc6-dev libc6-i386 libkrb53 libmysqlclient15off libsasl2 libsasl2-modules libsqlite3-0 libssl-dev libssl0.9.8 libvorbis-dev libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libvorbisfile3 mod-musicindex-common mysql-common postfix postfix-mysql zlib1g zlib1g-dev 25 upgraded, 18 newly installed, 9 to remove and 1062 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/26.4MB of archives. After unpacking 46.7MB disk space will be freed.
12:51am Ran update-manager -d and got 545 packages to update. Had an error with xfonts-scalable.
Restarted apache after removing the musicindex module.
12:54am update-manger -d now fails with pango warnings about ugly output. Fonts are screwed up.
12:57am "apt-get -f install" now gives me more info about the font error:
Setting up xfonts-scalable (1:1.0.0-6) ...
usage error: unrecognized option
Usage: update-fonts-dir DIRECTORY ...
update-fonts-dir { -h | --help }
This program is a wrapper for mkfontdir(1x) that is primarily useful to Debian
package maintainer scripts. See update-fonts-dir(8) for more information.
Options:
-h, --help display this usage message and exitdpkg: error processing xfonts-scalable (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
xfonts-scalable
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
dpkg -l xfonts-scalable initially reported that it was installed but failed config. Since then, I've tried to remove it, update it, reinstall it, but all fail. Now it looks like this:
root@weasel:/usr/share/X11/fonts# dpkg -l xfonts-scalable Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ iHR xfonts-scalabl 1:1.0.0-6 scalable fonts for X
There seems to be a bug related to this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfonts-scalable/+bug/150770
Bummer. I'm stuck without fonts, so I can't run synaptic, or any other X app. And this was first reported in October 2007. That doesn't give me much hope that it will be resolved soon. There isn't even any activity posted on this bug. It really seems like amd64 is a second-class platform.
Googling for other problems similar, I find that someone had a similar problem with all his X fonts showing up as tall, narrow, empty boxes and the locale was implied to be the problem but no solution was found. An idea was to verify that fonts were installed with fc-list.
My fc-list returns a list of 183 fonts. And the output looks normal.
