do-release-upgrade crashed after "Calculating the changes"

[Siegfried Gevatter]

Binary package hint: update-manager-core

When upgrading from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 (development version) with "upgrade-manager -d" on a normal Ubuntu install (ie., not the server edition) it crashed with an AttributeErroor some seconds after printing the line "Calculating the changes".

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Reading state information: Done

Calculating the changes

S'ha produït un error greu
Informeu d'aquest error i adjunteu els fitxers /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log i /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log. L'actualització s'ha cancel·lat.
El vostre fitxer sources.list original s'ha desat a /etc/apt/sources.list.distUpgrade.
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/tmp/tmpsy8AkS/hardy", line 60, in <module>
    app.run()

  File "/tmp/tmpsy8AkS/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1509, in run
    self.fullUpgrade()

  File "/tmp/tmpsy8AkS/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1474, in fullUpgrade
    if not self.askDistUpgrade():

  File "/tmp/tmpsy8AkS/DistUpgradeController.py", line 757, in askDistUpgrade
    if not self.cache.installTasks(self.tasks):

  File "/tmp/tmpsy8AkS/DistUpgradeCache.py", line 669, in installTasks
    for line in pkg._records.Record.split("\n"):

AttributeError: Record

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

This should be fixed in my bzr branch. If you could verfiy the fix when I upload 0.87.11 that would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
 MIchael

[Suraj Fernandes (fernandes-suraj)]

I too have the same symptoms

[Craig Huffstetler (xq)]

I believe this bug is back in upgrading from Hardy 8.04 to Intrepid Ibex Alpha 2 (first time I have tried updating to Intrepid from Hardy). I am experiencing this exact same bug in running:

sudo update-manager -d

I am running 8.04 Final:
craig@aloe:~/Desktop$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy

craig@aloe:~/Desktop$ uname -a
Linux aloe 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 18 14:43:41 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

It begins setting new software channels in the GUI interface then the pop-up appears...

See attached file for complete system information and other information that might be of use:
lshw info then main.log from /var/log/dist-upgrade then apt.log from /var/log/distupgrade

(NOTE: main.log and apt.log from the dist-upgrade logs were identical after multiple attempts at running upgrade-manager -d [I compared using diff]).

Thanks,

Craig Huffstetler / xq
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[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

@xq:
The problem you experiencing is something different from the bugreport here. The log say:
...
2008-07-13 23:26:19,081 DEBUG Marking 'ubuntu-desktop' for upgrade
2008-07-13 23:26:19,369 DEBUG The package 'nvidia-glx-new' is marked for removal but it's in the removal blacklist
...
So it seems like your nvidia driver gets removed and this is why it refuses to continue.