upgrade from xubuntu 14.04 to 14.10 fails, no user feedback

[Daniel Kessel]

Upgrading from Xubuntu 14.04 to 14.10 fails. After choosing "Upgrade..." in the Dialog, nothing visible happens. This stays this way for 15 minutes.

This is all the terminal output I get:

WARNING:root:can not import unity GI cannot import name Dbusmenu, introspection typelib not found
Neue Veröffentlichungen von Ubuntu werden gesucht (Translated: "Searching new releases of Ubuntu")

There are no log files in: /var/log/dist-upgrade/

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-36.63-generic 3.13.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-36-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4
Architecture: i386
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Wed Oct 1 21:26:17 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-16 (199 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140316)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.update.manager.release.upgrades: 2014-10-01T21:05:32.011618

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1376414

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Try running the following in a terminal "DEBUG_UPDATE_MANAGER=1 /usr/bin/do-release-upgrade -d". Thanks in advance!

[Daniel Kessel (dkessel)]

Well... now it worked. I guess this was some temporary issue.

[Bob Peach (rpeach0107)]

Thank you Brian Murray. I am a novice Ubuntu and this really helped, Bob