Sloppy Linux Notes

I use Titanium Backup and on the newer Android when using external card for storing backups I was hit by this issue, manifested by backup session being interrupted with a message “Insufficient storage”.

I’m currently on Android 5.1.1 (CyanogenMod 12.1 NIGHTLY) and the following steps helped:

Edit /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml

Find the following section

<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >
    <group gid="sdcard_r" />
    <group gid="sdcard_rw" />
</permission>

Add <group gid=”media_rw” /> to make it look like that

<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >
    <group gid="sdcard_r" />
    <group gid="sdcard_rw" />
     <group gid="media_rw" />
</permission>

Reboot your phone

So you ran do-release-upgrade but it didn’t work?

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
sudo do-release-upgrade

Some useful logs are located under /var/log/dist-upgrade/ and I bet you are going to find there something along these lines:

Error authenticating some packages

It was not possible to authenticate some packages. This may be a transient network problem. You may want to try again later. See below for a list of unauthenticated packages

Temporary workaround, create file

/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades.d/unauth.cfg

filled with the following

[Distro]
AllowUnauthenticated=yes

Now your sudo do-release-upgrade should run OK

Make sure to remove this file once upgrade process is completed.

And if this helped don’t forget to leave a comment 😉

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