Snakeoil Firmware - 1.1.7 (Blind Testing Update 7)

[patricia1066]

I updated 1.17 successfully today. I rebooted and clicked on Upgrade Ubuntu. Two hours later the screen has gone blank, no response but the PC is still on. I worry that if I shut down in the middle of the upgrade the OS will need to be reinstalled. 
Any advice?

Ubuntu in general is unlikely to have a problem.

Can you still SSH into the machine? If yes, try SSH into the machine, and run the following command:

Code:

sudo killall snakeoil-rest

Now try to get to the webapp from the browser again. Can you load it? If yes, click on the "Update Ubuntu" and see what happens.

Hopefully you'll be in the 18.02 branch..

Upgrade still looks a bit iffy doing it from the WebApp.. Hopefully will get some time to really sit down and test out all the permutations. :/

I think one problem is that I have the networking kernel installed, and was not around to respond to the permission requests required to implement the new update. 
The webadmin page came up again on 16.04.06 after using Putty to access the unresponsive PC.  I returned to the original standard kernel. 
I clicked on Upgrade, and instead of looking up 18.04 it looked up xenial. So naturally, I am still on 16.04! Hope this helps you to find the bug.

[font]Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [109 kB]
Hit:2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB]
Get:4 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [107 kB]
Fetched 325 kB in 0s (353 kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Calculating upgrade...
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  dmeventd dmraid gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 gir1.2-soup-2.4 gir1.2-vte-2.91
  gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 kpartx kpartx-boot laptop-detect libdevmapper-event1.02.1
  libdmraid1.0.0.rc16 libiw30 libllvm3.8 liblvm2cmd2.02 libparted-fs-resize0
  libreadline5 libtimezonemap-data libvte-2.91-0 libvte-2.91-common lzma
  sbsigntool
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Hit:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Reading package lists...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Calculating upgrade...
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  dmeventd dmraid gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 gir1.2-soup-2.4 gir1.2-vte-2.91
  gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 kpartx kpartx-boot laptop-detect libdevmapper-event1.02.1
  libdmraid1.0.0.rc16 libiw30 libllvm3.8 liblvm2cmd2.02 libparted-fs-resize0
  libreadline5 libtimezonemap-data libvte-2.91-0 libvte-2.91-common lzma
  sbsigntool
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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Your Ubuntu has been upgraded. Please reboot###########################################[/font]