Adventures in Ubuntu Upgrades, 2023

Kris Bravo on September 21, 2023

I recently caught back up with system maintenance, part of which involved upgrading from an archaic version of Ubuntu to the latest Long Term Support (LTS). While Ubuntu isn’t perfect, it has been tolerable as various distributions have come and gone in reliability.

I found this post to follow along. They had me at “MAKE A BACKUP”:

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/upgrade-ubuntu-20-04-lts-to-22-04-lts/

Starting point:

  • Linux 5.4.0-163-generic x86_64
  • Description: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
  • Deja Dup Backups from this morning

The process rolled along from about 10 am to.

It’s interactive. I was prompted to agree to a few service restarts. Conflict in configuration for pulse audio.

After the reboot, the outcome I feared would happen, happened. The window manager was trashed. It basically disappeared the moment the desktop was populated. The system was unusable as a desktop.

I switched to another console, and methodically removed Unity from it, after looking up the missing “dock”. After removing Unity and rebooting the system recovered with gnome and is better that this morning when I started.

So, a happy ending after all.

Time for another backup.