Upgraded the laptop at home to the latest Ubuntu LTS release viz. 16.04.1 on Saturday. Started the upgrade in the morning. There were a number of errors reported and the laptop refused to boot to Ubuntu post the upgrade. Thought my laptop was bricked as the Windows 10 boot also seemed to be affected.
Did some debugging in the afternoon to figure out the cause. Managed to boot into recovery mode on an older kernel image and get to the shell prompt. Running dpkg revealed more than 530 packages had not completed their installation. The root cause of the problem seemed to be the failure to configure the cron package due to some issue with LSB headers in VMWare USB init files that update-rc.d did not like. As I was not using VMWare, moved those files and re-installed the packages. Things went fine after that and was finally able to get the new release going.
A brand new OS on the laptop after 2 years. Still getting used to the new desktop interface.
My kindle also showed an upgrade message - postponed it for now.
Did some debugging in the afternoon to figure out the cause. Managed to boot into recovery mode on an older kernel image and get to the shell prompt. Running dpkg revealed more than 530 packages had not completed their installation. The root cause of the problem seemed to be the failure to configure the cron package due to some issue with LSB headers in VMWare USB init files that update-rc.d did not like. As I was not using VMWare, moved those files and re-installed the packages. Things went fine after that and was finally able to get the new release going.
A brand new OS on the laptop after 2 years. Still getting used to the new desktop interface.
My kindle also showed an upgrade message - postponed it for now.
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