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I recently tried upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 on my netbook, but something went wrong, and X session hang up. After reboot I still can log to system, but Gnome is rather broken.

I found that I can issue command "sudo do-release-upgrade" to continue upgrade, but it tries to do upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04, even I have "jaunty" in /etc/apt/sources.list.

I guess thats because some information in system has 9.10 in version, like "lsb_release -a" gives "Release: 9.10"

My question is: Where I should change release information, so "sudo do-release-upgrade" can do upgrade 9.04 -> 9.10, not 9.10 -> 10.4

I know how to copy /home dir and reinstall system with preservation of this dir, I'm just curios if there is way to rescue sys by working with apt-get, aptitude, and dpkg. I'm sure that all changes were made only by these tools so maybe there is way to fix it. And, yes I know that 9.10 is a little bit outdated but it is still supported and I use it because of software compatibility.
Damian Melniczuk
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  • Trying to fix your 9.10 installation is folly. You need to backup your data and take note of your installed apps, then do a clean install of 10.10. Fixing a broken install is difficult, and even if you succeed, you'll have an installation two release cycles behind. It's simply not worth the trouble. – Evan Kroske Oct 24 '10 at 18:43

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It's probably better to run sudo apt-get -f install and sudo dpkg --configure -a instead. That should install/upgrade all the packages that were marked by the upgrade process but didn't get installed yet because of the crash.

JanC
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This command helped me, when a power cut interrupted my install. But I was upgrading from Lucid to Maverick.

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Just as an anecdote, I once copied the contents of /var/cache/apt from 8.10 into 9.10, so I could roll-back to 9.04. Suffice to say, I had to do a clean install later.

theTuxRacer
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