Aborted upgrade to 21.04 did not restore original system state, is it safe to continue?

Zilk

10/22/22, 10:58 PM

I was trying to upgrade from 20.10 to 21.04. I fully updated the system (no reboot was required), then ran do-release-upgrade:

Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [819 B]
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1.276 kB]
Fetched 1.276 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
authenticate 'hirsute.tar.gz' against 'hirsute.tar.gz.gpg'
extracting 'hirsute.tar.gz'

Reading cache

Checking package manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Get:1 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute InRelease [269 kB]
...

In the end there was not enough space on /boot to continue:

Calculating the changes

Not enough free disk space

The upgrade has aborted. The upgrade needs a total of 151 M free
space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 8.464 k of
disk space on '/boot'. You can remove old kernels using 'sudo apt
autoremove' and you could also set COMPRESS=xz in
/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf to reduce the size of your
initramfs.


Restoring original system state

Aborting
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done

My /boot is tiny (237M); Ubuntu's installer created it this way 5 years ago. There was only the current kernel left, and I'm already using COMPRESS=xz for the initramfs, so I had to remove memtest86+ to make some space. Then I re-ran do-release-upgrade:

root@hostname:/boot # do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.

root@hostname:/boot # apt update
Get:1 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute InRelease [269 kB]
Get:2 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-updates InRelease [109 kB]
Get:3 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-backports InRelease [90,7 kB]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-security InRelease [101 kB]
Get:5 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-updates/main amd64 Packages [238 kB]
Get:6 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-updates/main i386 Packages [124 kB]
Get:7 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-updates/main amd64 c-n-f Metadata [4.744 B]
Fetched 936 kB in 1s (1.066 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
2633 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

This can't be right. Those 2633 packages must be from 21.04, and the updater did not restore the previous system state.

How should I continue? I don't think it's safe to just let apt upgrade all those packages and hope for the best...

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user535733

10/22/22, 11:08 PM

Your sources were changed -- see how they say "hirsute" now? Just change them back. Alternately, you can take this opportunity to back up your data and then resize your partitions properly.

Zilk

10/22/22, 11:25 PM

Thanks. Changed them back to "groovy", and the upgrade ran fine - until it wanted *just 7k more* space in /boot... again. Time to go with plan B and just do a fresh install. I've got backups and another box running 21.04 for reference. Resizing partitions is a major PITA with full disk encryption.

N0rbert

10/23/22, 7:16 AM

Does this answer your question? [My /boot partition hit 100% and now I can't upgrade. Can't remove old kernels to make room](https://askubuntu.com/questions/171209/my-boot-partition-hit-100-and-now-i-cant-upgrade-cant-remove-old-kernels-to)

Zilk

10/23/22, 8:13 AM

It does not answer the question. 1) The point of my question was not the missing space. 2) The linked question suggests making space by removing unneeded kernels, which I do not have.

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EN: Aborted upgrade to 21.04 did not restore original system state, is it safe to continue?

TH: ยกเลิกการอัปเกรดเป็น 21.04 แล้วไม่ได้กู้คืนสถานะระบบเดิม ปลอดภัยไหมที่จะดำเนินการต่อ

RO: Actualizarea întreruptă la 21.04 nu a restabilit starea originală a sistemului, este sigur să continuați?

RU: Прерванное обновление до 21.04 не восстановило исходное состояние системы, безопасно ли продолжать?

VI: Đã hủy nâng cấp lên 21.04 không khôi phục trạng thái hệ thống ban đầu, có an toàn để tiếp tục không?

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