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ubuntu-release-upgrader package

not possible to upgrade on powerpc

Bug #1791229 reported by Michael Glynn on 2018-09-07

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1790202: Ubuntu 16.04 on powerpc offered to upgrade to 18.04. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Not sure -maybe server timed out

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:16.04.25
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-134.160-powerpc64-smp 4.4.140
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-134-powerpc64-smp ppc64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18
Architecture: powerpc
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Fri Sep 7 16:39:12 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-01 (582 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 14.04.5 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release powerpc (20160803)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2018-09-07 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog:
Log time: 2018-09-07 16:38:00.102878
Log time: 2018-09-07 16:38:08.539504
Log time: 2018-09-07 16:38:41.959889
Log time: 2018-09-07 16:39:12.907532
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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Michael Glynn (mongolia239) wrote on 2018-09-07:

CurrentDmesg.txt.txt Edit (36.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (343 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstate.tar.gz Edit (483.3 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeLspcitxt.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.txt Edit (13.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) on 2018-09-07

tags:

added: xenial2bionic

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2018-09-07:

The powerpc port of Ubuntu was dropped during the development of Ubuntu 17.04 and as such it is not available in Ubuntu 18.04 either, however ppc64el is available.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes#A32-bit_PowerPC_Support_Dropped