HowTo upgrade from trusty to xenial

[chbram]

Hi all,

 

I am running a lime2 board with trusty as a server. Now I wanted to upgrade to xenial and used the standard Ubuntu way using "do-release-upgrade". Since that failed and resulted in a not booting image I was now wondering if this is the right approach for armbian as well. I was searching the docs but couldn't find what I was looking for.

 

Thanks

Chris

[Igor]

It should work also on Armbian, in theory, but such upgrade is always critical. There are many things, which could and go wrong ... if you provide some logs, we could at least learn something.

[chbram]

Took me a while to rerun. It looks like the error is around systemd. The screenlog.0 file shows:
 

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Initializing machine ID from D-Bus machine ID.
Adding group `systemd-journal' (GID 112) ...
Done.
Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator
chfn: PAM: Authentication failure
adduser: `/usr/bin/chfn -f systemd Time Synchronization systemd-timesync' returned error code 1. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing package systemd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 systemd
Error in function:

A fatal error occurred

 

 

And the main.log has those entries:
 

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2017-04-22 20:16:16,678 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: 'systemd': 'subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1'
2017-04-22 20:16:16,681 DEBUG running apport_pkgfailure() systemd: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
2017-04-22 20:16:20,496 ERROR not handled exception:
SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

2017-04-22 20:16:20,498 DEBUG running apport_crash()
2017-04-22 20:16:20,507 ERROR failed to import apport python module, can't generate crash: No module named 'apport_python_hook'
2017-04-22 20:16:20,509 DEBUG can't find apport
2017-04-22 20:16:21,007 ERROR SystemError from cache.commit(): installArchives() failed
2017-04-22 20:16:21,008 DEBUG can't find apport
2017-04-22 20:39:03,535 DEBUG Running PostInstallScript: './xorg_fix_proprietary.py'