Ubuntu – Do-release-upgrade to 13.04 crashed

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I did a do-release-upgrade to upgrade from my 12.10 to 13.04 Ubuntu. The download for 680 MB files were completed successfully. After 10-15 minutes of running, I noticed that the desktop windows got slow,alt tab,switch workspace etc weren't responding. I could open the terminal but no icons to close,minimize and restore. I still let it run for another 6 hours and final with no change I rebooted the system.
On reboot it did show Ubuntu 13.04 but all the mentioned problems still persist and it also shows that compiz crashed during installation.

Now how do I run the OS upgrade files again without downloading them. It seem Ubuntu is convinced that the OS upgrade has completed but then I am not sure if it is only the compiz or there are other files also that did not get installed because of this.
EDIT:
So as advised I ran the update-manager-text from terminal but still some errors. Also after running sudo dkpg --configure -a the above problems still persist.

sudo update-manager-text  [sudo] password for ajay:  
Reading package lists... 
Done Building dependency tree         
Reading state information... 
Done Building data structures... 
Done  Building Updates List Traceback (most recent call last):   
File "/usr/bin/update-manager-text", line 70, in <module> app = pdateManagerText(data_dir)   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManagerText/UpdateManagerText.py", line 55, in __init__self.fillstore()   
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManagerText/UpdateManagerText.py", line 90, in fillstore
self.list.pkgs, key=operator.attrgetter("importance"), AttributeError: 
'UpdateList' object has no attribute 'pkgs'

Best Answer

Please do not use do-release-upgrade to upgrade Ubuntu. It tends to break the system. Please use the Update Manager:

  1. Press the super key (Windows key) to open the Dash, type Update Manager.

  2. Hit the Check button then Install Updates, repeat the process until no updates is pending.

  3. Press now the Upgrade button.

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  4. You will be alerted with the releases notes, Hit upgrade again.

  5. Follow the in-screens instructions.

I believe you have problems of dependencies and whatnot, is such cases run sudo apt-get -f install to fix such issues.

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