[Bug 1608137] [NEW] cannot perform upgrade from 14.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS

2016-07-30 Thread Merlin Emrys
Public bug reported: I get an error message that I have unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu, but AFAIK that is not the case. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-93.140-generic 3.13.11-ckt3

[Bug 1503655] Re: Kernel bug in eventpoll_release_file+0x46/0xa0 with 3.13.0-66.107

2015-10-07 Thread Merlin Emrys
The kernel update that was issued today -- 3.13.0-66 -- killed my computer. Fortunately I was able to go back to the prior one -- 3.13.0-65. When restarting after the install and just after logging in, a system error box came up, but all I could do was a hard shutdown. After two times, I reverted t