Ubuntu
update-manager package

Upgrade from Dapper to Edgy failed

Bug #68519 reported by Patrick Fey on 2006-10-27

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #67996: x11-common preinst script fails (was: aborts /usr/X11R6/bin not empty). Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

During the upgrade process a message popped up saying something like:

Directory /usr/X11R6/bin is not empty. Installation will now fail. Please move everything out of this directory and rerun installation.

I clicked ok and after a few minutes another dialog appeared saying something like:

Installation failed. Your system is in an unusable state. Please report this bug in launchpad for the update-manager package and include everything in /var/log/dist-upgrade

So I did by filing this bug.

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Patrick Fey (fey) wrote on 2006-10-27:

#1

apt.log from /var/log/dist-upgrade Edit (93.6 KiB, text/plain)

apt.log

tar does not work any more, so you get this as single files.

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Patrick Fey (fey) wrote on 2006-10-27:

#2

main.log from /var/log/dist-upgrade Edit (27.6 KiB, text/plain)

main.log

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Patrick Fey (fey) wrote on 2006-10-27:

#3

term.log from /var/log/dist-upgrade Edit (25.5 KiB, text/plain)

term.log

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Peter Waller (peter.waller) wrote on 2006-10-27:

#4

This happened to me too. Need help rectifying my system. Do I just re-run the dist-upgrade script?

Would it be useful to see my log also?

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Patrick Fey (fey) wrote on 2006-10-27:

#5

I moved the contents of the directory to another temporary directory and rerun the upgrade script. A message came up, that said I should run sudo apt-get install -f and then rerun the upgrade script again. I did this. Half way through the upgrade, the x server was shut down and did not come up again, complaining that the ati module was not found. I then did a sudo dpkg --reconfigure -a. This finished the installation of the other packages, but x still did not come up. I did a sudo apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-all && sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-all package and this did the trick. My system is running fine with edgy now. Not something you would call a smooth upgrade path, but at least it works. YMMV.

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