Just want to share my upgrade experience.
I upgraded after much of reluctance today (13-Sep-2024). The upgrade went smoothly but the restart did not happen correctly. I observed that lightdm service failed to start. I went to root shell removed lightdm and reinstalled it. Then I was able to get the login screen. I also had to install gnome-control-center, nautilus, and ubuntu-desktop for the Files, Terminal and docking to work. Had to reinstall Virtualbox for Noble. Things are looking fine for now.
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I’ve gotten into a pretty bad situation. The upgrade from 22.04 to 24.04 didn’t complete successfully (might have been 24.04.1 I just did do-release-upgrade). It says there are 1169 updates that can be applied. 29 security updates. New release 24.04.1 is available.
dpkg --configure -a
yields “Processing was halted because there were too many errors.”
apt --fix-broken install
yields “Unable to correct dependencies”
do-release-upgrade
yields " There is no development version of LTS available"
I can backup everything and reinstall but it’s a lot of work. Anyone have a more elegant solution?
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I upgraded from 22 to 24, and it came up with a new desktop and wouldn’t open anything. Very vague messages like missing profile. I checked the logs and saw some permission errors. Then checked my /home permissions and some reason they were owned by www-data. I changed to my own user and rebooted and it all came up with my profile working.
It seems like there should be a basic upgrade check script that verifies some basics such as permissions and current driver compatibility.
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