fail to upgrade to edgy

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we first installed [sugested by gnomefreak]

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-video-all

then
output of sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a

Thanks for your bugreport and the logs.

How did the ugprade abort? Did it present you a error message? Or just hanged? The logs unfortunately don't indicate what exactly went wrong.

But please try:
$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
$ sudo apt-get install -f
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop^

That should recover your system.

Thanks,
 Michael

i have tried all that many time but about still shows dapper
yet /etc/debian_version shows test/unstable.

the upgrade ended with an error message and iinstruction to report a bug and upload those 3 files

i am currently doing dist-upgrade which is the only one i had not done and its telling be 518 pkgs will be upgraded do i need to put ^ after ubuntu-desktop

thanks

dist-upgraded returned this

Adding `diversion of /etc/cron.daily/find to /etc/cron.daily/find.notslocate by slocate'
Unpacking replacement slocate ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/courier-authdaemon_0.58-4ubuntu1_i386.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/courier-authlib_0.58-4ubuntu1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

and sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop^ returned
below

You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  courier-authdaemon: Depends: courier-authlib (>= 0.58) but it is not going to be installed
  courier-authlib-userdb: Depends: courier-authlib but it is not going to be installed
                          Depends: courier-authlib (>= 0.58) but it is not going to be installed
  courier-base: Depends: courier-authlib but it is not going to be installed
  totem-gstreamer: Conflicts: totem-xine but 2.16.2-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
  totem-xine: Conflicts: totem-gstreamer but 2.16.2-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

master@lares:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  courier-authdaemon courier-authlib
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  courier-authlib
The following packages will be upgraded:
  courier-authdaemon
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
543 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/83.9kB of archives.
After unpacking 164kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
dpkg: error processing courier-authdaemon (--remove):
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal.
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
  what(): basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid
Aborted
master@lares:~$ Errors were encountered while processing:
 courier-authdaemon

if i try to remove it tells me to reinstall, how do i resintall

dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal.
(Reading database ... 122177 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing courier-authdaemon ...
 * Stopping Courier authdaemon... exec: 31: /usr/sbin/courierlogger: not found
                                                                                                                      [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript courier-authdaemon, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing courier-authdaemon (--purge):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
 * Starting Courier authdaemon... exec: 31: /usr/sbin/courierlogger: not found
                                                                                                                      [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript courier-authdaemon, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 courier-authdaemon
master@lares:~$

after seveal times playing around with all the options i ran
sudo dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq -P courier-authdaemon

this removed the pkg but it kept the directory
i rebooted and once in X update manager recomended a dist-upgrade saying it had not been completed, i did and rebooted and now it seems i am fully running edgy....

i recomend closing this since we are not sure what went wrong in the original update

you guys are the expert and can decide, if you want more info from be dont hesitate to ask

Thanks for this additional information and sorry that the upgrade was a unpleasant for you. The root of the problem seems to be a error in the courier-$foo packages. I'm investigating this currently.

you mean 67558 is a duplicate of this one :-)

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