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   Michael F. Stemper to All   
   Upgrade apparently stalled out   
   13 Jun 24 07:38:53   
   
   From: michael.stemper@gmail.com   
      
   Yesterday afternoon, I finally broke down and pushed the "Upgrade" button   
   on one of my boxes, to move it from 18.04 to 20.04.   
      
   Everything started off just fine. After an hour or so, I had a little window   
   with a task checklist. It spent an hour or so half-way through "Calculating   
   changes" (text from memory).   
      
   I went and did other things. A couple of hours later, I checked on it, and   
   this checklist was gone. In its place was what looked like a large xterm,   
   roughly 800x600 pixels by eyeballing it.   
      
   No text in it, no cursor, no title bar, no chrome of any kind. I can move   
   it around, but that's rather pointless.   
      
   The box is still happily running cronjobs and responding to sftp and ssh   
   requests.   
      
   What do I need to do to either push the upgrade to completion or to undo it?   
   It seems to be in a rather precarious situation at the moment.   
      
   --   
   Michael F. Stemper   
   I refuse to believe that a corporation is a person until Texas executes one.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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