Last night my wife made the mistake of answering yes to the upgrade to 16.04 message that appeared on her 14.04 Gnome desktop. Like the other upgrades this one was a spectacular failure. The net result is a black screen of death. I haven't seen this kind of total failure since the early Windows days.
This is really pitiful. Almost 3 months after I first reported this problem (and there are *many* other similar reports), and something like four or five months after the product release, it still has a 100% failure rate to install here (4 different machines). The worst part of it, is though I am a relatively experienced Linux developer and long time Ubuntu user, I have been unable to resurrect a single one of these broken machines, because they end up in such a messed up final state of missing, conflicting, or misconfigured packages. I have no choice but to follow advice that previously given only by Microsoft and re-install the system from scratch. Two of the updates involved long running machines, so they probably had some old packages, but they were all 100% patched to the latest 14.04. Two of the machines were very recent new installations of 14.04 (less than a month old). Sorry for some of the insulting/sarcastic language, but for a long time you had a great product, but for this release you have really screwed up -- probably because you have diversified into too many new "products" and not allocated appropriate resources to your base system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1589551 Title: upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04 or direct install of 16.04 fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1589551/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
