upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04.1 fails

[edward sternin]

$ sudo do-release-upgrade -d
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [819 B]
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,265 kB]
Fetched 1,266 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
authenticate 'jammy.tar.gz' against 'jammy.tar.gz.gpg'
extracting 'jammy.tar.gz'

[screen blanks here]

Reading cache

Checking package manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Hit http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease
Hit http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease
Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
=== Command detached from window (Fri Oct 28 11:16:34 2022) ===
=== Command terminated with exit status 1 (Fri Oct 28 11:16:44 2022) ===

[screen is terminating]

$ uname -a
Linux tempo 5.4.0-131-generic #147-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 14 17:07:22 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ cat /etc/*elease*
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="20.04.5 LTS (Focal Fossa)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS"
VERSION_ID="20.04"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=focal
UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: linux-image-5.4.0-131-generic 5.4.0-131.147
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-131.147-generic 5.4.210
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-131-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.24
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC2: edik 1914 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: edik 1914 F.... pulseaudio
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri Oct 28 11:21:00 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-05-30 (1246 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Release amd64 (20190416)
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 eno0 no wireless extensions.
ProcFB: 0 nouveaudrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-131-generic root=UUID=a501cd51-bc07-496b-a8dd-bee5e1db7c02 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-5.4.0-131-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-5.4.0-131-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.187.33
RfKill:
 0: hci0: Bluetooth
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2022-10-28 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 05/21/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
dmi.bios.version: KGIBX10J.86A.5531.2010.0521.1135
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: DP55SB
dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
dmi.board.version: AAE47220-304
dmi.chassis.type: 2
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrKGIBX10J.86A.5531.2010.0521.1135:bd05/21/2010:svn:pn:pvr:rvnIntelCorporation:rnDP55SB:rvrAAE47220-304:cvn:ct2:cvr:

[edward sternin (edward-sternin)]

I made the terminal window several screens' tall, to see the following (before the screen gets blanked by the install process - why would it do that?):

Reading cache

Checking package manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease
Hit http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease
Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-hq1pt_14/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeQuirks.py", line 205, in _get_from_and_to_version
    di.version('%s' % self.controller.fromDist).split()[0]
AttributeError: 'UbuntuDistroInfo' object has no attribute 'version'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-hq1pt_14/jammy", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-hq1pt_14/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py", line 241, in main
    if app.run():
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-hq1pt_14/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 2042, in run
    return self.fullUpgrade()
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-hq1pt_14/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1873, in fullUpgrade
    if not self.doPostInitialUpdate():
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-hq1pt_14/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 906, in doPostInitialUpdate
    self.quirks.run("PostInitialUpdate")
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-hq1pt_14/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeQuirks.py", line 99, in run
    func()
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-hq1pt_14/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeQuirks.py", line 118, in jammyPostInitialUpdate
    self._get_from_and_to_version()
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-hq1pt_14/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeQuirks.py", line 211, in _get_from_and_to_version
    (r.version for r in di.get_all("object")
AttributeError: 'UbuntuDistroInfo' object has no attribute 'get_all'
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 477, in add_to_existing
    self.write(f)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 430, in write
    block = f.read(1048576)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/codecs.py", line 322, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byte

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-hq1pt_14/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeQuirks.py", line 205, in _get_from_and_to_version
    di.version('%s' % self.controller.fromDist).split()[0]
AttributeError: 'UbuntuDistroInfo' object has no attribute 'version'

During handling of the above exception,...

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

This change was made by a bot.

[edward sternin (edward-sternin)]

May have been solved by:

sudo pip uninstall distro-info
sudo apt install --reinstall python3-distro-info

ref: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1137645/python-error-when-upgrading-from-18-10-to-19-04