upgrading to version 7.10

[shridhar]

While upgrading to 7.10 from 7.04, I got this message:

"Getting upgrade prerequisites failed

The system was unable to get the prerequisites for the upgrade. The upgrade will abort now and restore the original system state.

Please report this as a bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport."

Something similar had happened when trying to download updates. I go a failed to fetch update message then but if I tried again it would continue where it had left off as it had downloaded the files to the temp folder. I went to software sources and chose the best and fastest server and the updating hasn't had a problem yet. While updating I usually get around 50 kb\sec but upgrading only gets me 10 or so kb\sec. I tried upgrading again and again to see if it would pick up from the temp folder and it got a bit further but then gets stuck while "fetching file 1 of 2" and every time it starts file 1 of 2 all over again and can't finish it. So either Ubuntu has a problem with patience or the server keeps resting itself or something.

In the /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log it says:

"2007-11-07 11:30:09,897 INFO release-upgrader version '0.81' started
2007-11-07 11:30:10,526 DEBUG lsb-release: 'feisty'
2007-11-07 11:30:10,527 DEBUG _pythonSymlinkCheck run
2007-11-07 11:30:12,460 DEBUG checkViewDepends()
2007-11-07 11:30:12,461 DEBUG getRequiredBackports()
2007-11-07 11:30:27,456 ERROR IOError in cache.update(): 'Failed to fetch http://debian.linux.org.tw/ubuntu/dists/feisty/Release.gpg Connection failed
'. Retrying (currentRetry: 0)
2007-11-07 11:30:47,718 DEBUG marking 'release-upgrader-apt' for install
2007-11-07 11:30:47,868 DEBUG marking 'release-upgrader-dpkg' for install
2007-11-07 11:32:31,539 DEBUG pre-requists item: '<pkgAcquire::ItemIterator object: Status: 3 Complete: 0 Local: 0 IsTrusted: 1 FileSize: 1924684 DestFile:'/tmp/tmphXy61V/backports/partial/release-upgrader-dpkg_1.14.5ubuntu11.2_i386.udeb' DescURI: 'http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/r/release-upgrader-dpkg/release-upgrader-dpkg_1.14.5ub'
2007-11-07 11:32:31,540 DEBUG pre-requists item: '<pkgAcquire::ItemIterator object: Status: 3 Complete: 0 Local: 0 IsTrusted: 1 FileSize: 1307096 DestFile:'/tmp/tmphXy61V/backports/partial/release-upgrader-apt_0.6.46.4ubuntu10.3_i386.udeb' DescURI: 'http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/r/release-upgrader-apt/release-upgrader-apt_0.6.46.4u'
2007-11-07 11:32:31,541 ERROR no backports found but setupRequiredBackports() called??!"

All other downloads besides updating and upgrading never have any problems.
Thanks for helping!

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Emmettly (chris-orient)]

Hi! I have not been able to upgrade ubuntu yet due to my slow internet
connection. I haven't actually tried using the alternative CD to upgrade but
I'm sure that would work. Thanks!

On 2/1/08, Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
> for you? Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> upgrading to version 7.10
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178246
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>

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Alright, closing the bug then, thanks you.