sudo do-release-upgrade

[Nathan RIDET]

Hello,

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 21.04
Release: 21.04
Codename: hirsute

By using the command "sudo do-release-upgrade" i was expecting my server upgrading from Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute) to 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish), but the following error shew up :

" Reading cache

Checking package manager

Can not upgrade

An upgrade from 'hirsute' to 'jammy' is not supported with this tool.
=== Command detached from window (Sun Jul 17 20:12:08 2022) === "

Cordially,
Nathan

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: linux-image-5.11.0-49-generic 5.11.0-49.55
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-49.55-generic 5.11.22
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-49-generic x86_64
AlsaDevices:
 total 0
 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 Jul 17 19:24 seq
 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 Jul 17 19:24 timer
AplayDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'aplay'
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65.4
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'arecord'
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
CRDA: N/A
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
Date: Sun Jul 17 20:10:28 2022
Ec2AMI: ami-0002e2be
Ec2AMIManifest: FIXME
Ec2AvailabilityZone: nova
Ec2InstanceType: vps2020-comfort-4-16-80
Ec2Kernel: unavailable
Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
IwConfig: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'iwconfig'
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0627:0001 Adomax Technology Co., Ltd QEMU USB Tablet
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Lsusb-t:
 /: Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M
     |__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 12M
MachineType: OpenStack Foundation OpenStack Nova
PciMultimedia:

ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=C.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB:

ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.11.0-49-generic root=UUID=570c046d-9998-4858-8aaa-786b6dc160bc ro console=tty1 console=ttyS0
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-5.11.0-49-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-5.11.0-49-generic N/A
 linux-firmware N/A
RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'rfkill'
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to hirsute on 2022-07-17 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 04/01/2014
dmi.bios.release: 0.0
dmi.bios.vendor: SeaBIOS
dmi.bios.version: 2:1.10.2-58953eb7
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: QEMU
dmi.chassis.version: pc-i440fx-focal
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnSeaBIOS:bvr21.10.2-58953eb7:bd04/01/2014:br0.0:svnOpenStackFoundation:pnOpenStackNova:pvr19.0.4:sku:cvnQEMU:ct1:cvrpc-i440fx-focal:
dmi.product.family: Virtual Machine
dmi.product.name: OpenStack Nova
dmi.product.version: 19.0.4
dmi.sys.vendor: OpenStack Foundation

[Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot)]

This change was made by a bot.

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 21.10 (impish) reached end-of-life on July 14, 2022.
Ubuntu 21.04 (hirsute) reached end-of-life on January 20, 2022.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Ubuntu 21.04 was not a LTS release; had one supported & quality-assurance tested upgrade path; to Ubuntu 21.10 or the next release; which closed the moment Ubuntu 21.10 reached EOL.

The upgrade path you're trying to use is not supported.

Use a LTS or long-term-support release if you don't wish to release-upgrade every 6-9 months. Ubuntu 21.04 told you it was the 2021-April release (ie. a year.month format is used with 2000 added to year) meaning the 9 months supported life is pretty easy to calculate & thus plan. If using a LTS release you have had 2-5 years and not 6-9 months which is generally better for most users (eg. 20.04 LTS or the 2020-April release has support until 2025-April for standard support; which can be extended via use of ESM too)

[Rob Thomas (xrobau)]

The fix for upgrading 21.04 to 21.10 (which does not work) is in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1982055

Simply change the 'continue' to 'pass' on line 332 of /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py which will allow the machine to upgrade, instead of being blocked forever.