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ubuntu-release-upgrader package

  1. Bug #1254447
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1254447

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Bram Moolenaar (bram-moolenaar) wrote : Re: Upgrade to 13.30 crashes because of hidden file

% sudo ls -la /etc/apt/sources.list.d
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 24 20:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Nov 25 21:09 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176 Nov 24 20:04 google-chrome.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 207 Nov 24 20:03 google-chrome.list~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176 Nov 24 13:59 google-chrome.list.distUpgrade
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 209 Nov 24 19:22 google-chrome.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1714 Nov 24 20:04 .google-chrome.list.un~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 24 19:22 xorg-edgers-ppa-saucy.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 24 19:22 xorg-edgers-ppa-saucy.list.save

In this situation I get the mentioned stack trace.

% sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/.google-chrome.list.un~

Now the stack trace does not happen.
QED.

The undo file was created by reverting the change caused by upgrading, the Google source line was commented out, using Vim with 'undofile' enabled.