From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On 6/13/2024 8:38 AM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   The stalling part happened to me as well. 23.10 to 24.04 .   
      
   The weird interface (Xterm with an animation box below it), showed   
   the installer was removing Thunderbird .deb and replacing it with   
   Thunderbird snap instead. And the screen progress halted, disk   
   LED stopped flashing.   
      
   I tried to repair it, the broken packages thing and so on.   
      
   I would say after half an hour, I restored from backup.   
      
   This is my backup sequence, not that it matters.   
      
        Disk#34  full backup   
        Clone Disk#29 to Disk #34  (same BLKIDs etc, can't run the two disks at   
   once, no, NOT dd)   
        Run 24.04 Upgrade on Disk #34  (fail, kaboom, no forward progress, stuck)   
      
        Clone Ubu23.10 from Disk#29 to Disk#34.   
        Boot 23.10 and remove Thunderbird .deb   
        Run 24.04 Upgrade, finished this time. Reboot to discover 640x480 screen   
   res, no option to change.   
        Fiddle with drivers, manage to fix it. Back to native screen resolution.   
      
        Blow away trial upgrade, restore Disk#34 from backup.   
        Try a Ubuntu 24.04 Clean install to the end of Disk#34,   
        add to the Linux Mint which is already on Disk#34.   
        Screen resolution native, functional.   
      
   But the new installer (as Upgrade), I don't know what's up with that. Summer   
   Intern ?   
   High school is out ?   
      
   One of the problems with "releasing operating systems on a schedule",   
   is you have two choices. Be perpetually late, but deliver great product.   
   Or, what was the other option again ?   
      
      Paul   
      
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