Attempted Distro Upgrade Fails on Ubuntu Minimal Package

[albert fishnets]

Distro upgrade from 13.10 to 14.4 fails on repo access because it blocks all third party repostories, then can't find Ubuntu Minimal package.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.205.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-18.32-generic 3.11.10.4
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Sun Apr 20 08:36:49 2014
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2014-04-20 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog:
 Log time: 2014-04-20 08:35:18.872461
 Log time: 2014-04-20 08:35:28.300169
 Log time: 2014-04-20 08:36:30.189180
 Log time: 2014-04-20 08:36:52.583586
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This is likely due to a slow or overloaded mirror.

2014-04-20 08:36:30,189 DEBUG need_server_mode(): run in 'desktop' mode, (because of pkg 'ubuntu-desktop')
2014-04-20 08:36:30,189 ERROR No 'ubuntu-minimal' available/downloadable after sources.list rewrite+update

I'd try using a different one.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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