upgrading xubuntu 23.10 to 24.04.

I purged a broken package that was blocking upgrades with sudo dpkg -P libfreerdp2-2 and immediately afterwards I executed sudo apt get upgrade. It unleashed a list of 96 packages to upgrade totaling 900 MB of data.

However, if I press yes on ‘do you want to continue?’ wlan is off wlan is on, nmtui clearly shows it activated, but each time I try upgrading, updating, autoremoving, or install --fix-missing I get:

E: failed to fetch http… initramfs-tools-core… could not connect to 127.0.0.1, connection refused.

(I can write the whole address if you need it)

Some other contributors suggest I use a live usb, not installing the OS but using the live usb with working wlan to complete the installation, but this seems to be more complicated than working directly from initramfs.

  • ceciline02@lemmy.mlOP
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    5 months ago

    Small breakthrough: I booted the system without problems to tty1 (I believe this is called single user mode), logged in as an old user and now I can see all my data, logged in as old me. Do you still recommend to backup from live usb and upgrade from there?

    NMTUI shows that wlan works

    • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      me? i didn’t recommend that. if you have your wifi, you could update now. however, if you don’t have a backup yet, you should 100% make one. i always make fresh backups before a dist upgrade. (everyone hates the way I’m doing it, but it works really well. i just tar every important fs with --one-file-system on a 1TB USB stick. if they don’t break at writing, they will be able to store the data much longer than i would need.) meaning, in your situation I would already have one and it sounds like you forgot that step, but idk.