Comment 5 for bug 1534374

Thanks.
Meantime, I was able to get my video card recognized, so I'm running on
14.04 as well, and I've turned off notifications of non-lts releases.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Gary Krueger <email address hidden> wrote:

> I abandoned the release-upgrader route for upgrading from root encrypted
> 14.04 LTS pretty quickly. I later tried to upgrade by downloading to a
> USB key and reinstalling. However, the current Ubuntu 15.04 and 15.10
> has a problem with broken encryption. So, encrypting partitions was
> broke in a way that made it very difficult to know why the install
> wasn't working.
>
> Root encrypted 14.04 LTS had always been a problem for me. It would
> boot up in a way that left the screen blank. In order to unencrypt to
> complete the bootup, I had to ALT-CTRL-F6 then ALT-CTRL-F7 to get it to
> ask for the encryption key.
>
> What forced me to try to upgrade was that the (Broadcom) WiFi broke, and
> I forgot that I had read that updates and upgrades may break the WiFi
> that was installed.
>
> It would also crash on occasion when suspending (after several
> suspensions).
>
> So, I reverted to an unencrypted install of 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr).
> Then, when creating the user account, I selected the option for
> encryption of the user directory. Much easier. And the machine is now
> much more reliable.
>
> So far, I have done more than several suspends and it has been rock
> solid.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1534374
>
> Title:
> unable to upgrade to 15.04 due to libstdc++6 SRU
>
> Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> initially had a problem with X when i installed a new Nvidia video
> card. got that working but only one monitor was functioning (other is
> displayport). Thought maybe upgrading to a new release might fix the
> problem. Software update only offered 15.04, so I said ok and tried
> to upgrade. It crashed with the info attached. rebooted just in
> case, but still get the same problem
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
> Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.8
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt20
> Uname: Linux 3.16.0-57-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
> Architecture: amd64
> CrashDB: ubuntu
> Date: Thu Jan 14 18:38:01 2016
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-14 (306 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64
> (20150218.1)
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcEnviron:
> TERM=xterm
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2016-01-14 (0 days ago)
> VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
>
> mtime.conffile..etc.update.manager.release.upgrades:
> 2016-01-14T18:29:51.136835
>
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