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

    hi, thanks for your input.

    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

    • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      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.

      Nice.

      Do you still recommend to backup from live usb and upgrade from there?

      I would backup from live usb and then when that is done stop using the live usb, reboot and try to upgrade via the recovery mode.