upgrade 9.04 to 9.10 always propose lucid instead of karmic

[Teleios]

Hi,

I made an upgrade successfully from 8.10 to 9.04. Now I am trying to upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 but update manager propose 10.4 instead of 9.10.

Specifically, sudo do-release-upgrade fails:

"Checking for a new ubuntu release
Done Upgrade tool signature
Done Upgrade tool
Done downloading
extracting 'lucid.tar.gz'
authenticate 'lucid.tar.gz' against 'lucid.tar.gz.gpg'
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names

Reading cache

Checking package manager

Can not upgrade

An upgrade from 'jaunty' to 'lucid' is not supported with this tool."

How can I fix it?

Regards!

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.

[johnnynyquist (johnnynyquist)]

I have the same problem as the original poster- I don't think it's a support issue but a bug in do-release-upgrade. The idea of do-release-upgrade is to handle the upgrade process for the user.. in this case, 9.04 cannot be upgraded directly to 10.04, so do-release-upgrade shouldn't be trying to do that.

I would welcome a support answer as well or instead- but the upgrade process as described by official documentation fails, which seems like a bug.

official documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KarmicUpgrades

[Teleios (alejandro-willers)]

I agree with johnnynyquist, since I followed the official documentations as well and the mentioned distribution appears.

It seems to be a bug.

Regards

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
Running in a terminal
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
what happens ?
If not working, in terminal
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
and substitute all the jaunty written with karmic, be carefull.
save and run update manager.
Fabio

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Karmic (9.10) reaches end of life on 30/04/2011

[johnnynyquist (johnnynyquist)]

> sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
> and substitute all the jaunty written with karmic, be carefull.
> save and run update manager.

Thanks, that worked, except I used sed instead of gedit.
Booting into karmic, do-release-upgrade worked as expected.

Thanks again!

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
thanks for the replyI close this report
Feel free to report any other issue you can find
Thanks
Fabio

[benny (b3ny)]

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.