I have a Fiesty Fawn installation on an AMD64 machine that I attempted to upgrade to Gusty Gibbon. While running, I got a series of errors. In particular, it told me it could not install several packages because of a missing library, including:
bash
login
passwd
sudo
and a bunch of gnome packages (maybe a dozen).
During installation I got the message " The upgrade aborts now. Your system could be in an unusable state. A recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a).", after which the installer went about its business. At the end it directed me to open a bug and attach the contents of /var/log/dist-update, which I am now doing.
At this point, my system seems to be stable and many things seem to have been upgraded, but I have no clue what to do next. Some of the packages it reported as having problems are pretty basic, and I'm afraid to reboot lest on the reboot I don't have a working machine.
Please indicate what the next step I should do is. Logs are attached. Thanks very much.
An update, for whoever is watching this.
After having done basically nothing to remediate the situation, my system has been running fine, and shows no stability problems. So either the installation repaired itself after updates/reboots, or there was never a problem to begin with. The problems I did have after the upgrade were the minor one normally gets on a kernel update, similar in nature to when I upgraded from Edgy to Feisty.
So I don't know what the issue was on the install that it complained so loudly about. The logs, which I attached when I file the bug, will tell you more than I know about it.