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I am currently running 21.04. I would like to upgrade to 21.10, but when I try to start the upgrade by clicking on the button (see image) the window simply closes and that's it.

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Nothing is written to /var/log/apt/history.logor term.log

I have run sudo do-release-upgrade from the command line with the following response:

Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Your Ubuntu release is not supported anymore.
For upgrade information, please visit:
http://www.ubuntu.com/releaseendoflife

I changed my sources.list file as instructed here:How to install software or upgrade from an old unsupported release? but when running sudo apt-get update I get

Hit:1 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Ign:2 https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x86_64  InRelease
Hit:3 https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x86_64  Release
Ign:5 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute InRelease
Ign:6 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-updates InRelease
Ign:7 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-backports InRelease
Ign:8 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-security InRelease
Err:9 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.123 80]
Err:10 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-updates Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.123 80]
Err:11 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-backports Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.123 80]
Err:12 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-security Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.123 80]

If I then run sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  cuda cuda-drivers
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

I changed my source.list file to use archive instead of old-releases, ran sudo apt update, which ran normally. I then ran ``sudo apt dist-upgrade```, which gave

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

I then ran

sudo do-release-upgrade

With these results:

Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Your Ubuntu release is not supported anymore.
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    Open a terminal and try to run sudo do-release-upgrade, if you get an error, add it to your question.
    – pLumo
    Feb 11, 2022 at 9:26
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    Does this answer your question? How to install software or upgrade from an old unsupported release?
    – pLumo
    Feb 11, 2022 at 10:15
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    @pLumo, I tried but without success. I added the results to the question.
    – CHsurfer
    Feb 11, 2022 at 11:01
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    Your specific problem seems right there in your output: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. You didn't complete Step 1 and fully update your system before starting the release-upgrade.
    – user535733
    Feb 11, 2022 at 12:35
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    Check askubuntu.com/questions/601/…
    – pLumo
    Feb 11, 2022 at 12:47

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It turns out that the main issue is that I had two manually installed packages (cuda, cuda-drivers) that were not updating.

As per the answer here: askubuntu.com/questions/601 I needed to

Cautious solution 2:

The cautious solution is to run sudo apt-get install [list of packages kept back]. In most cases this will give the kept-back packages what they need to successfully upgrade.

sudo apt-get install cuda cuda-drivers

installed these packages. I did a restart as instructed by the above commands output and then tried to initiate the upgrade via the Software Updater. This seems to have solve the issue.

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