lucid -> precise upgrade: dist-upgrade/apt-term.log only shows packages being removed

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Automated upgrade testing Lucid to Precise main all

apt-term.log only shows packages being removed while dpkg.log shows that many packages have been installed. This is a problem for post-mortem analysis.

For example
https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/job/precise-upgrade-lucid-main/ARCH=amd64,LTS=lts,PROFILE=main-all,label=upgrade-test/32/

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This looks like something prevented the main upgrade to run at all. Either etckeeper or something else in the dpkg::pre-invoke scripts. There is a bug here that the non-interactive upgrader does not detect this as a error.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

> This looks like something prevented the main upgrade to run at all.

The dpkg.log shows a large number of packages are being upgraded. So there may be an issue preventing everything being upgraded that we want, but there's also an issue that packages are being upgraded and we're not getting a log of it in the term.log.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Jibel the lof file indicated in the description is no longer accessible. Do you happen to have a recent example? Thanks!

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I had a look at apt-term.log and VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.txt log files attached to ubuntu-release-upgrader bug reports and did not see any that only contained messages about removing packages so I am going to set this report to Invalid since it doesn't seem to be an issue any longer and release upgrades to Precise are no longer supported.