Failure using auto upgrade from 14.10 to 15.04 with cinnamon from PPA
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
After a system restart and login using Unity desktop, the distro upgrade message displays. Selected upgrade.
Packages analysed and downloaded, but then within the second stage process "Setting new software channels", the "Can't install ubuntu-desktop" message is displayed and requests a bug/error log is recorded here.
I do have and normally use the Cinnamon desktop. This is still installed, though I logged in using Unity in effort to allow the upgrade (it has at least got as far as allowing reporting of this error). A similar issue occurred on upgrade from 14.04 to 14.10 and seemed to be caused by having Cinnamon installed that time.
As Cinnamon is such a popular desktop choice, I don't know why Canonical don't support this configuration during upgrades (if this is the problem cause) - or even officially release a Cinnamon Ubuntu variation (e.g. "Cibuntu").
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: ubuntu-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8.4
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed May 6 07:55:04 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-27 (738 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: ubuntu-
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2015-05-06 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgra
| Alec MacLean (alec-g) wrote | #1 |
| Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote | #2 |
| summary: |
- Failure using auto upgrade from 14.10 to 15.04 + Failure using auto upgrade from 14.10 to 15.04 with cinnamon from PPA |
| Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
From VarLogDistupgra
2015-05-06 07:54:41,367 DEBUG none of the '['ubuntu-desktop', 'kubuntu-desktop', 'xubuntu-core', 'xubuntu-desktop', 'ubuntustudio-
2015-05-06 07:54:41,367 DEBUG guessing 'ubuntu-desktop' as missing meta-pkg
We may want to add cinnamon-desktop to data/DistUpgrad
However, that probably won't help out your specific case as you don't have that package installed and I believe you should.