I'm upgrading from 13.04 to 13.10 and the installation is hanging
What steps can I take to rollback the upgrade? Is it safe to shut down my machine?
I'm upgrading from 13.04 to 13.10 and the installation is hanging
What steps can I take to rollback the upgrade? Is it safe to shut down my machine?
I had a similar issue with the upgrade to 13.10. I solved it using a modified method of that that was presented by user207943 in this thread.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T to get a terminal and log out using the command
pkill -U username
log back in, open the terminal again and unlock the update with:
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
then run:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
then:
sudo apt-get upgrade
Finally to finish run:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
After restarting mine was fine. (I had many restarts between the configure line and the other two lines. I was trying to fix issues with unfinished upgrades which caused my network devices not to be recognised (among other problems). Everything failed, until I ran the upgrade commands which solved everything.) I think you may be able to run just dist-upgrade rather than upgrade then dist-upgrade. I don't know but the above method seemed to work.