Upgrade from 18.04 LTS fails
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
do-release-upgrade -m desktop fails with the following message:
Could not determine the upgrade
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.
If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the
command 'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-
you want to investigate this yourself the log files in
'/var/log/
Specifically, look at 'main.log' and 'apt.log'.
main.log shows:
"ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'E:Error, pkgProblemResol
sudo apt-mark showhold doesn't show anything held.
I have removed all the 3rd party PPAs and applications, muon and discover say I have no pending updates, and there are no locked packages.
I have some searching around and it looks spookily similar to bug #1875523. Could it be a regression?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubuntu-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-143-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.23
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sat May 15 20:22:13 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-12-21 (511 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: ubuntu-
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2021-05-15 (0 days ago)
mtime.conffile.
Thanks for taking the time to report this upgrade failure. There is currently a new version of the release upgrader available in -proposed which may resolve the error you've encountered. Please run the following command to test the new version of the upgrader:
do-release- upgrade -p
Please lets us know the results in this bug report. Thanks again and good luck!