Update from saucy to trusty fails due to multiple meta packages installed

[Stephanie]

Hello,

When I launch 'do-release-upgrade' it always fail saying I have to report a bug against ubuntu-release-upgrader-core.

I removed all external sources and I don't use any closed source driver.

$ ls /var/log/dist-upgrade/
20130428-2255 20131029-1735 20131101-2309 20140418-2009 20140418-2220 20140421-2222 20140421-2321 20140522-2042 20140523-0854 20140523-0913 apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz lspci.txt
20130504-1130 20131101-2128 20140418-1952 20140418-2153 20140418-2230 20140421-2235 20140425-1937 20140522-2301 20140523-0855 20140523-0914 apt.log main.log

Thanks for your help

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.205.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-22.38-generic 3.11.10.8
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Fri May 23 08:44:09 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-08-16 (644 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2014-05-22 (0 days ago)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The system has multiple meta packages installed which seems to be causing an issue for the release upgrader. The installed meta packages include kubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-desktop and ubuntustudio-desktop.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Encolpe Degoute (encolpe)]

Hello,

I did remove the all the *desktop meta packages and it's still failing during the warmup.

How did you find where the error comes from? I will try to investigate further.

Regards,
Encolpe

[Encolpe Degoute (encolpe)]

After several tries the release upgrade has been done via apt-get.
I hope the system is stable enough to wait the release 14.10.