Questions tagged [do-release-upgrade]
Questions pertaining to the do-release-upgrade utility.
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"while scanning your repository information no entry about artful" during LTS
Having trouble upgrading from 16.04 LTS to 18.04.1 LTS.
Getting this error during the process
"while scanning your repository information no entry about artful"
Sources.list
root@nc:~# cat /etc/...
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Partially Successful Upgrade From 20.04 To 20.10
Introduction:
Back in March, I bought a new Dell XPS 13 that came with Ubuntu 20.04 pre-installed. Since version 20.10 had already been released, I immediately tried to upgrade it. That upgrade ...
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Recover from aborted do-release-upgrade
I executed do-release-upgrade on desktop 18.04 and then realized that this command is for servers. But it started the upgrade process anyway without any prompt, rewrote configuration files and only ...
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Don't know how to remove packages to upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04
I have been trying to upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04 for a few weeks with no success. As many others (e.g., here), I get an error message saying that Ubuntu "could not calculate the upgrade". I tried to ...
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do-release-upgrate Bionic to Focal is crashing with an error
I'm trying to do a release upgrade from Bionic to Focal. The upgrade is crashing pretty early with this error message
2023-08-29 04:47:19,413 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: 'python3.8-minimal': ...
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Failed to connect to https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-development
I carefully read the threads about this error. None of the proposed solutions (truncate /var/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/release-upgrade-available or changing from https to http in /etc/update-manager/...
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sudo apt upgrade fails after "dpkg-statoverride: warning: no override present"
I recently updated from ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 using the terminal (do-upgrade-release). After the installation is complete, when I try sudo apt upgrade, I get the following warnings which eventually ...
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ubuntu upgrade 14 to 16 NOT 18
Is there a simple way to do-release-upgrade from 14 -> 16 and not from 14 -> 18? The default behavior of do-release-upgrade is from 14 (trusty) to 18 (bionic) directly. This is giving me trouble and ...
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Cannot upgrade from Ubuntu 16.10 to 18.04 LTS
I am trying to upgrade from Ubuntu 16.10 to Ubuntu 18.04 and getting this error everytime:
An upgrade from 'yakkety' to 'bionic' is not supported with this tool.
How do I resolve this?
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How is MySQL upgrade happening in the LTS 14.04 -> 16.04 upgrade?
When doing the LTS upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04, how is MySQL updated, is a it just an in-place upgrade from Mysql 5.5 to 5.7? Or is there something fancier going on behind the scenes, like a logical ...
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Is there a do-release-upgrade history?
I noticed apport somehow "knows", I started out with 14.04 installation media and upgraded to 16.04 recently... Is there a complete history of all the upgrades I did? And where would I find it?
/var/...
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do-release-upgrade closes with "restoring original system state" on 14.04
I'm trying to upgrade from 14.04 LTS to 15.10, but just running do-release-upgrade causes it to fail without an error description and says "restoring original system state." All of my software ...
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do-release-upgrade stalled
I am in the middle of a do-release-upgrade 10.04 to 12.04 server but it appears to have stalled while upgrading mysql
Configuration file `/etc/mysql/my.cnf'
==> Modified (by you or by a script) ...
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After executing do-release-upgrade (12.04), the lsb_release -a still shows wrong version
I have executed do-release-upgrade on a 12.04 Ubuntu server system. The upgrade went fine, but the welcome screen still shows 14.04 instead of 14.04.1 (which I would expect).
Looking at the ...
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Unable to upgrade ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04
I currently have ubuntu version "20.04.5 LTS (Focal Fossa)" running and I want to upgrade it to 22.04.
I have ran the following commands and it's outputs:
# sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://...
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Problem with do-release-upgrade
I am currently trying to upgrade from 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS, but when I issue the command "do-release-upgrade" I get this message:
"You have not rebooted after updating a package which ...
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Services not starting after upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04
After upgrading from 20.04 to 22.04 and rebooting, my laptop gets stuck in the loading screen. Hitting escape while the loading indicator is spinning shows output from the boot process. In this output,...
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Home server does not boot any more after system upgrade
I have a little home server running on Ubuntu. Although I'm a Windows user in real life (shame on me), I have some basic Linux knowledge, so I managed to set up this machine using a great (German) ...
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cloud-init schema.py Invalid cloud-config provided
Upon an attempted do-release-upgrade from Ubuntu Server 20.04.4 to 22.04, the installation ran, and now upon reboot, it is stopping with this error:
cloud-init: schema.py[WARNING]: Invalid cloud-...
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Upgrade Kubuntu 21.10 to Kubuntu 22.04 LTS
I have Kubuntu 21.10 installed and want to upgrade to Kubuntu 22.04. Is it already out for upgrades? What tool should I use?
I installed the ubuntu-update-manager, and it seemed to have recognized the ...
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Release upgrading 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS breaks mysql-server 5.7?
L.s.
I work for a managed hosting company and because of Ubuntu 16.04 has gone EOL we are pushing our clients to dist-upgrade their servers. Most clients preffer the least amount of downtime and want ...
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LXD not installed after upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04
I have been trying to get snap working on my Ubuntu machine for a while, but got nowhere. So I decided to upgrade to the latest LTS version of 20.04.
error: system does not fully support snapd: ...
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Upgrade Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Right now, I have installed Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS.
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS"
Now, I want to update Ubuntu 20.04 ...
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Shortcuts not working after upgrading Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04
I recently upgrade Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 an now I am seeing that over desktop none of the shortcut keys is working such as CTRL+C CTRL+V SHIFT+DEL. Though I am able to able to perform above using the ...
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Can I install or upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 desktop without a USB stick and having only command line and no network on 16.04 installation?
Quarantined in a rural area so I can't run out and get a USB stick.
Available devices:
Lenovo laptop
Dvd component not working.
Can only access ubuntu 16.04 from the terminal command screen.
HP ...
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Continue Ubuntu Upgrade from 19.04 to 19.10
Ubuntu interrupted an upgrade due to a locally changed grub file. I selected the option to open a new terminal to see the differences. It just kicked me back to the existing terminal as root instead. ...
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How to properly debug failures with do-release-upgrade?
I'm trying to run do-release-upgrade on a system image (when chrooted) and the command fails without any further error messages or guidance:
root@gilneas:/var/run# do-release-upgrade
Checking for a ...
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How to Upgrade multiple Ubuntu 14 to 16
I need some recommendation for upgrading multiple ubuntu.
I have to upgrade my Ubuntu 14 server to Ubuntu 16. I know how to upgrade.
My problem is the server is not only one, over 10 servers, so i don'...
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Ubuntu fails to boot after upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04
I had a working Ubuntu 16.04 installation with FDE encryption via luks. Followed the process below.
Upgraded using the sudo do-release-upgrade command.
Most programs continued to work after upgrade.
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What should I do about broken packages on update?
While trying to upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10 I get this error:
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.
This can be caused by:
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 upgrade hangs at libhin1
I am on a binge upgrade of servers from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. Some of the upgrades are going fine and some of the servers the upgrade hangs at this point:
Preparing to unpack .../libnih1_1.0.3-...
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Trouble upgrading from 16.04 (network problem?)
This is the current version I have
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
When I try
sudo do-...
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dpkg --configure -a stuck at "setting up base-files (10.1ubuntu2)
I have been using ubuntu since version 8.04.
I start to loosing faith in this distribution.
I was on 17.10 for a while, until one day, after I upgraded, the OS no longer boots.
The error was
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Which branch am I on?
After doing a do-release-upgrade -d about a month ago, I switched, as intended, to the development branch (-d) of Ubuntu 17.10. Now, after its final release, I would like to confirm that I am back to ...
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UnicodeDecodeError during release upgrade (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS > 16.04 LTS)
There is an Ubuntu 14.04.05 LTS Server-VM which has to be upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04.02 LTS. Unfortunately, I get the following error during the dist-upgrade:
**File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-...
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Zimbra upgrade fails: Perl API version v5.14.0 of Socket does not match v5.18.0
I just tried to upgrade my Zimbra version from 8.0.5 to 8.7 after I upgraded Ubuntu from 12.04 to 14.04.
I followed this guide: https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Ubuntu_Upgrades but I still got this error: ...
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How do I upgrade from 14.04 to 14.10 instead of 15.10?
When I run do-release upgrade on 14.04 it tries to upgrade me to 15.10. I completed it the first time but ran in to all sorts of mysql issues.
I reverted the snapshot and would like to try the ...
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Unable to do-release-upgrade
I do have proper internet access and my current IP (in the UK) is 82.47.29.14 but my laptop is still linked to the German server 91.189.91.24 80.
But now I am unable to do do-release-upgrade:
alvas@...
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14.10 > 15.04 upgrade failed to install grub-efi-amd64-signed on Asus X205TA
The Short Story
Asus X205TA, 32bit grub, 64bit Ubuntu 15.04, kernel 4.0.5-generic
Problem: Partially installed grub-efi-amd64-signed causes error messages.
Question: What should be done about that?
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How to fix unbootable server after upgrade to 14.04
I had a pretty vanilla install of 12.04 running on a headless server with a software RAID1 array. I ran do-release-upgrade to upgrade to 14.04, and it seemed to run without issue. The only mistake I ...
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Fixing sources.list on arm archirecture
I have Linaro Ubuntu installed on ARM device (Zynq Mini-ITX development board).
Here is my
# lsb_release -a
output:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Release: 12.04
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Ubuntu 14.04 freezes on splash screen after broken upgrade from 13.10
I'm using VirtualBox to run my ubuntu VM on Mac. I've decided to make a distro upgrade which was apparently a very big mistake...
During upgrading my Mac hung up and I had to make hard reset. After ...
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how to restart upgrade during middle of upgrade session
I was upgrading from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04
sudo do-release-upgrade
after this downloaded 700 Mb of packages in approximately 10 hours and upgrade etc started
I am finally stuck up here during the ...
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Restoring original system state Aborting
dj@dj:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [819 B] ...
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Cannot Upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04 LTS
I am new to ubuntu, just wanted to upgrade dedicated server from 20.04 to 22.04. On first run of "do-release-upgrade" all seemed to go fine without errors, but after restart version still ...
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do-release-upgrade crashing when upgrading from 20.04 to 22.04
I am trying to upgrade Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 by using the command do-release-upgrade.
The command is just crashing.
How could this be fixed?
$ sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
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How do I fix broken package libgcc-s1?
When I do sudo apt upgrade libgcc-s1, I get:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
Some packages could not be ...
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Release upgrade to 22.10 fails due to missing release file in Jammy Jellyfish
In Ubuntu 22.04 I am running
sudo do-release-upgrade
and get
Error during update
A problem occurred during the update. This is usually some sort of
network problem, please check your network ...
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Upgrade to 22.10 failed (do-release-upgrade)
I tried do-release-upgrade and it failed (again!). Not sure what I'm doing wrong as it has mostly worked in the past. These are the log files from /var/log/dist-upgrade:
apt.log
main.log
Any help ...
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No cable or WiFi internet after upgrade to 22.04
I have just upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 and found that I have no internet access.
My computer is a RoG Strix Scar II, with pretty standard specifications, and upgrading has never been a ...
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