upgrade is aborted (from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04)

I restarted Ubuntu 9.10.

I got the following crashes:

Gnome-screensaver-gl-helper closed unexpectedly.
Network manager closed unexpectedly.
Package Python failed to install or upgrade
program package_hook closed unexpectedly.

The internet connection works fine so far.

I tried to reinstall Python 2.6. I got the following errors:

Errors were encountered while processing:
 b43-fwcutter
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up b43-fwcutter (1:011-5) ...
--2009-03-31 21:03:01-- http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
Resolving downloads.openwrt.org... 195.56.146.238
Connecting to downloads.openwrt.org|195.56.146.238|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: https://dev.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o [following]
--2009-03-31 21:03:02-- https://dev.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
Resolving dev.openwrt.org... 195.56.146.238
Connecting to dev.openwrt.org|195.56.146.238|:443... connected.
ERROR: certificate common name `openwrt.org' doesn't match requested host name `dev.openwrt.org'.
To connect to dev.openwrt.org insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.
Unable to establish SSL connection.
dpkg: error processing b43-fwcutter (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 b43-fwcutter

2009-03-31 19:52:43,743 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: 'python': 'subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 4
'
2009-03-31 19:52:43,743 DEBUG running apport_pkgfailure() python: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 4

Setting up python2.6 (2.6.1-1ubuntu7) ...
Setting up python (2.6.1-0ubuntu7) ...
running python rtupdate hooks for python2.6...
/usr/share/python/runtime.d/libboost-dbg.rtupdate unknown python version python2.6
error running python rtupdate hook libboost-dbg
Updating *.pc symlinks for python-gst0.10...
dpkg: error processing python (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 4

It seems like the rtupdate hook script in the intrepid version does not know about python2.6 yet. So if the old version is installed and the rtupdate script is run and tries to pass "python2.6" boot errors with "unknown version".

From the rtupdate script in intrepid:

rtupdate() {
    case "$1" in
        python2.4) py=py24 ;;
        python2.5) py=py25 ;;
        *) die $0 unknown python version $1 ;;
    esac

    update_linklibs $py a
    update_linklibs $py so
}

This affects both libboost-dbg and libboost1.35-dbg

This bug was fixed in the package python-defaults - 2.6.1-0ubuntu8

---------------
python-defaults (2.6.1-0ubuntu8) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Add versionized conflict against libboost-dbg and libboost1.35-dbg for
    lower version than jaunty. This ensures that the new version of the
    libboost-dbg.rtupdate script is available when the new python2.6 gets
    installed. The old script does not know about python2.6 and errors
    out (LP: #352317)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:30:21 +0200

I'm closing the update-manager part, this is a problem of the packages in question (python and libboost-dbg)

I tried nto upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 to Ubuntu 9.04Beta on my Acer Aspire ONE netbook. I could not get the upgrade to complete.

Error Message: W:Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/partner/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch
, W:Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/partner/source/Sources.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch
, E:Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I do not know how to interpret this error. (I am only a 1/8 Linux geek, I have not learned enough to to be more).

Help would be appreciated, as I would like to upgrade via net as this netbook does not have an optical drive.

I tried to update again early Saturday morning (0800 -4UTC) and I was successful in updating to Ubuntu 9.04 beta

The b43-fwcutter download error appears to have resolved itself on the openwrt server; closing this task.