Upgrading ubuntu servers from 10.04 to 12.04
I've had to upgrade three servers from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 in the last few days and normally this is a pain free process:
1) sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
2) sudo do-release-upgrade -d
3) Fix a few config files
4) reboot
Not this time though. Stuck in package dependency hell and the general refusal of the system to configure any packages. Two commands that are useful:
* sudo apt-get -f dist-upgrade
* sudo dpkg --configure -a
Anyway, to avoid all this just delete the directory /var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d before step 2 and everything works fine [He says as the final server fails to boot for a completely separate reason].