Bug 425251

Summary:	After cancelled upgrade I don't know how to restart the upgrade
Product:	[KDE Neon] neon	Reporter:	Jonas Eberle <flightvision>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Neon Bugs <neon-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	jr, neon-bugs, sitter, tynach2
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Jonas Eberle 2020-08-12 11:26:25 UTC

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
I just started the upgrade to Focal but it had to be cancelled due to insufficient disk space.

So now I cleaned up some space.


OBSERVED RESULT

I followed https://community.kde.org/Neon/FocalUpgrades again but after logout/login I do not get the upgrade notifier.

Do you know how I can restart the upgrade?


EXPECTED RESULT

Either: 
1) Upgrade notification is shown
or
2) Upgrade notes https://community.kde.org/Neon/FocalUpgrades should mention the console command to initiate an upgrade.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE neon 5.19
KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.72.0
Qt Version: 5.14.2

Comment 1 Colin Griffith 2020-08-13 01:20:36 UTC

For me, logging out and back in gives the notification again. I've been trying to figure out what packages are causing a bunch of KDE packages to just be marked for removal instead of upgrading, and for a while I had to constantly log in and out to test different package removals/installs.

Eventually I got fed up with it and filtered ksysguard by the word 'upgr' when running the upgrader, and found out this is the full command:

do-release-upgrade -m desktop -f DistUpgradeViewKDE


If you just want to do it over the command line, you can leave out the '-f DistUpgradeViewKDE' part; but if you want the GUI to pop up, leave it in.

Comment 2 Jonas Eberle 2020-08-13 06:39:30 UTC

Thank you very much Colin,

That's exactly the information I missed on https://community.kde.org/Neon/FocalUpgrades as for me logging in/out doesn't bring up the notification again.
- do you know who I could talk to to suggest including it there?

On that note (but another topic) it might also be important to have better public information about what `pkcon update` really does. If it is just a wrapper around the OS's update mechanisms without any additional logic it would spread a lot less uncertainty.

As package management in neon is suggested to be done with `pkcon`, I didn't want to just start the Ubuntu updater in fear it could do harm. In forums and on reddit people suggest `do-release-upgrade --allow-third-party` but nobody yet seemed to have the original command that KDE runs - thank you!

Comment 3 Colin Griffith 2020-08-18 18:03:08 UTC

No idea who to talk to, unfortunately. I only know what the command is by using ksysguard, and thankfully not being affected by the bug you're affected by (the notification not popping up each login).