upgrading to 14.04 fails

[chris pelling]

Essentially trying to do the upgrade, it fails with "Could not determine the upgrade"

Current version 13.10

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.205.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-20.34-generic 3.11.10.6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Fri Apr 18 18:25:09 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-12-07 (863 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2014-04-18 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Reviewing the files from your upgrade attempt you seem to have enabled the xorg-edgers-ppa. This will prevent the upgrade as that PPA contains different versions of packages essential to Ubuntu. The page, https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa, contains details on to how to revert to the official Xorg packages.

[chris pelling (chrfs)]

Hi Brian,

I read through your reply and many thanks for coming back to me so quickly, read the commented dupe which doesn't show much to help, so on your guidance ran from the posted revert :

>> https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

To revert to official packages, install the ppa-purge package and run "sudo ppa-purge xorg-edgers". Note: This currently has issues in oneiric because ppa-purge there does not work with multiarch. ppa-purge packages from this PPA do purge correctly on precise and newer.

So ran the commands (and output) :

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libasn1-8-heimdal:i386 libcupsfilters1:i386 libcupsimage2:i386 libcurl3:i386 libgcr-3-1
  libgdbm3:i386 libgssapi3-heimdal:i386 libhcrypto4-heimdal:i386 libheimbase1-heimdal:i386
  libheimntlm0-heimdal:i386 libhx509-5-heimdal:i386 libidn11:i386 libkrb5-26-heimdal:i386
  libldap-2.4-2:i386 libllvm3.3 libllvm3.3:i386 libnspr4:i386 libnss3:i386
  libqt4-designer:i386 libqt4-qt3support:i386 libqt4-scripttools:i386 libqt4-svg:i386
  libqt4-test:i386 libroken18-heimdal:i386 librtmp0:i386 libsasl2-2:i386
  libsasl2-modules:i386 libsasl2-modules-db:i386 libusb-0.1-4:i386 libwind0-heimdal:i386
  linux-headers-3.11.0-12 linux-headers-3.11.0-12-generic linux-headers-3.11.0-13
  linux-headers-3.11.0-13-generic linux-headers-3.11.0-14 linux-headers-3.11.0-14-generic
  linux-headers-3.11.0-17 linux-headers-3.11.0-17-generic linux-headers-3.11.0-18
  linux-headers-3.11.0-18-generic linux-image-3.11.0-12-generic
  linux-image-3.11.0-13-generic linux-image-3.11.0-14-generic linux-image-3.11.0-15-generic
  linux-image-3.11.0-17-generic linux-image-3.11.0-18-generic linux-image-3.8.0-32-generic
  linux-image-extra-3.11.0-12-generic linux-image-extra-3.11.0-13-generic
  linux-image-extra-3.11.0-14-generic linux-image-extra-3.11.0-15-generic
  linux-image-extra-3.11.0-17-generic linux-image-extra-3.11.0-18-generic
  linux-image-extra-3.8.0-32-generic openjdk-7-jre-lib printer-driver-hpijs
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  aptitude aptitude-common libboost-iostreams1.53.0 libcwidget3 libept1.4.12
Suggested packages:
  aptitude-doc-en aptitude-doc tasksel debtags libcwidget-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed
  aptitude aptitude-common libboost-iostreams1.53.0 libcwidget3 libept1.4.12 ppa-purge
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,653 kB of archives.
After this operation, 10.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main libboost-iostreams1.53.0 amd64 1.53.0-6+exp3ubuntu8 [34.6 kB]
Get:2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main aptitude-common all 0.6.8.2-1ubuntu2 [700 kB]
Get:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main libcwidget3 amd64 0.5.16-3.4ubuntu2 [401 kB]
Get:4 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main libept1.4.12 amd64 1.0.9 [135 kB]
Get:5 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main aptitude...

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This PPA is causing the same problem as the xorg-edgers one.

2014-04-18 18:23:42,775 DEBUG examining: 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/oibaf/graphics-drivers/ubuntu saucy main'

From their page:

=== Revert to original drivers ===
To revert to standard Ubuntu drivers type the following in a prompt shell:
$ sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
$ sudo ppa-purge ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers