I tried to upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04, but if failed with the message "Aborting" and "restoring previous state". I followed up on several similar reports here, without success, and finally decided to plan a clean install of a newer release in the year 2022. But now my 16.04 system fails when I try to update software.It had no such problem before that.
How to get back to previous state?
At this time, "sudo apt-get update" gives these messages:
Hit:1 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Ign:3 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Get:4 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable InRelease [3,181 B]
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/flacon/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:6 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release
Hit:7 https://download.sublimetext.com apt/stable/ InRelease
Hit:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Hit:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:12 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Hit:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:14 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable/main amd64 Packages [93.1 kB]
Get:15 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_8.x xenial InRelease [4,646 B]
Fetched 101 kB in 1s (58.4 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:39 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:39 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:39 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Translations (partner/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:39 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Translations (partner/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:39 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Translations (partner/i18n/Translation-en_GB) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:39 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target DEP-11 (partner/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:39 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target DEP-11-icons (partner/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:39 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:39 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:39 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:39 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Translations (partner/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:39 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Translations (partner/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:39 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Translations (partner/i18n/Translation-en_GB) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:39 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target DEP-11 (partner/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:39 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target DEP-11-icons (partner/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:39 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
And, "sudo apt-get upgrade" fails as follows:
~> sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
libarchive13 openssh-client ssh-askpass-gnome
3 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/866 kB of archives.
After this operation, 8,192 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu10) ...
Bus error (core dumped)
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Can't stat /lib/i686-linux-gnu: No such file or directory
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Can't stat /usr/lib/i686-linux-gnu: No such file or directory
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Path `/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' given more than once
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Path `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' given more than once
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfakeroot:
libfakeroot-0.so -> libfakeroot-tcp.so
/lib/i386-linux-gnu:
Bus error (core dumped)
dpkg: error processing package libc-bin (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 135
Errors were encountered while processing:
libc-bin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Requested current partners list file:
$ cat xenial-partner.list
# channel for the xenial (16.04) partner channel
#:description:This channel contains the partner software for xenial
deb archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial partner
The system cannot download libc, due to a permissions issue:
OptiPlex-755:~$ sudo apt-get download libc-bin
Get:1 us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 libc-bin amd64 2.23-0ubuntu10 [641 kB]
Fetched 641 kB in 0s (1,643 kB/s)
W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/home/rich/libc-bin_2.23-0ubuntu10_amd64.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
OptiPlex-755:~$
Best Answer
I see the following moments:
You have warning messages about duplicate entries - remove them by removing the partners' repository file and updating APT again:
Your libc is somewhere broken, we need to fix it before upgrade
Upgrade all packages of current release to latest versions
Upgrade the system to 18.04 LTS