do-release-upgrade seems not to check if there is enough HD space for the upgrade
Bug #613174 reported by
Guntbert Reiter
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #876146: Upgrading Ubuntu is risky (unusable or unbootable PC). What can be done to safeguard data, revert failed upgrades and overall reduce the risks?.
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager-core
on upgrading from 9.10 to 10.04 on a small system (8 GB HD, ~1GB free) the remaining space on the HD dropped to 48MB. Downloads occur before deletes :-)). I would have expected a warning before the downloads begin.
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Sorry that the issue got unattended for a long time. Please feel free to reopen by marking the status as "new" if you see this in current versions of update-manager.