Much the same thing. The whole process is horrible. I've tried 20 times (yes, literally 20 times) so have 20 /tmp/turds all with the same failed program. It used to run partway then timeout, then fail. Each of these attempts take 10-20 minutes. I COULD do "apt-get dist- upgrade", but that is hidden, and now after about 5 minutes it says some packages couldn't be authenticated, but provides LESS information on how to correct the problem than most windows programs. (Some packages could not be authenticated - basically a list of apparently every package - then it does an undo - and it says it is a transient problem).
I could burn a CD or DVD with the entire upgrade, but you don't provide that option either, only system-wipe images. Didn't anyone tell you to put your files in /home? So sorry, you can never downgrade now... Last time, half my hardware broke, so I've imaged the drive. This is really stupid. Can't anyone there figure out to download the dist-upgrade files ONCE to /var/lib/cache so it doesn't spend 20 minutes downloading the same tools, same lists, same everything when it fails? And not ask the same stupid questions or give the same stupid notifications? You demand a perfect connection for several hours as a condition of upgrading? This is stupid. You download several megabytes per failed attempt. This is also stupid. Yea, if it works perfectly it works, but no one has bothered about gracefully being able to retry. No retrys for any failure (like a loose ethernet plug) is stupid. Maybe a proxy or firewall is blocking something, but never being able to find out is stupid. Not having a way of finding a log - assuming you create one is stupid. There is the "Terminal" but that only gets turned on at the end. (and yes, the problem might be my wireless connection, which is open, but why I'm upgrading, but my ethernet port which works is firewalled) I regularly compile kernel modules with modifications, but you bury things so deeply and give NO meaningful feedback that I can't even fix Ubuntu anymore. And if I dare upgrade outside of your official method, everything will probably break completely. I only have to do the upgrade once. The problem is I'm now on my 23rd try. -- distribution upgrade buggy(apparent hangs) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/163606 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
