Software Updater Cannot Upgrade 21.10 to 22.04 LTS

Bug #1970726 reported by JF Lim
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Bug Description

Currently running Ubuntu 21.10 and up to date.

Launch Software Updater. Software Updater Output:

The software on this computer is up to date.
However, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is now available (you have 21.10).

Selected "Upgrade..." button but Software Updater Icon just disappeared from the Dock Panel. Basically Software Updater just quit.

Tried Software Updater three times and same results. Nothing happened.

Would like to upgrade from Ubuntu 21.10 to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.10
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:21.10.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-40.45-generic 5.13.19
Uname: Linux 5.13.0-40-generic aarch64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu71.1
Architecture: arm64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Apr 28 16:27:16 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-03-29 (394 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Alpha arm64 (20210329)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to impish on 2021-10-22 (187 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeLspcitxt:

VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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JF Lim (jflim) wrote :
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JF Lim (jflim) wrote :

I have another USB Flash with Ubuntu-Impish-Desktop Ubuntu-Gnome using kernel from Armbian linux-image-edge-meson64 (kernel version 5.15.32-meson64).

Launch the Software Updater. The output:

The software on this computer is up to date.
However, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is now available (you have 21.10).

Selected "Upgrade..." Button.

The same result as reported earlier. The "Software Updater" just quit and nothing happened.

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JF Lim (jflim) wrote :

Today, received system pop-up offer to upgrade 21.10 to 22.04 LTS.

Select/Click "Upgrade" and upgrade proceeded successfully.

But unfortunately snap Firefox (replaced .deb Firefox previously installed) and snap Chromium (replaced .deb Chromium previously installed) does NOT launch if options/flags for Wayland had been enabled for snap Firefox or snap Chromium.

Furthermore both snap Firefox and snap Chromium uses a much older mesa 21.0.3.

The default Ubuntu-Jammy mesa 22.0.1-1ubuntu2 arm64 seems to have compatibility issues with Amlogic Arm64 SOC. Visual artifacts/glitches like flickering mouse pointer, mouse pointer disappear, Top Bar Menu Flicker when Chromium or Firefox is runing webglsamples Aquarium for example.

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Nick Rosbrook (enr0n) wrote :

The collected log files appear to be from your upgrade from Hirsute to Impish, so unfortunately there is not enough information to figure out what was happening with the silent failures. I am glad it eventually worked though.

For the firefox/chromium issues, please open a new bug(s) in the appropriate location.

Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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JF Lim (jflim) wrote :

@enrOn Thanks for the response. Just to inform, if you manually launch the Ubuntu Software Updater GUI and select "Upgrade..." to 22.04 LTS, it still does NOT upgrade 21.10 to 22.04 LTS.

The one time that work is when the system pop-up and offer the option to upgrade 21.10 to 22.04 LTS.

If not mistaken the snap Chromium Wayland issue should be resolve with snap Chromium 102.0.5005.40 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1897454

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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