Comment 21 for bug 1928434

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Doug McDonald (dxm480) wrote :

> However, a change has been made to ubuntu-release-upgrader that lets us
> block upgrades only for Apple hardware, and upgrades have been turned on for
> 20.10 to 21.04. So I'm not sure why you say that it "currently prevents"
> it.

What I meant by "[this bug] currently prevents do-release-upgrade to 21.04 from 20.10" is:

If, as I write this, on a (non-Apple) ppc64el platform running 20.10, one attempts to use "do-release-upgrade" to upgrade to 21.04, the upgrade will not proceed, and instead this message will appear:

> An upgrade is not possible at this time
>
> Due to a bug in shim, LP: #1928434, upgrades are not currently safe
> for your hardware.
>
> Once that bug has been resolved you will be able to upgrade to the
> next release of Ubuntu.
>
>
> Restoring original system state
>
> Aborting

Does that answer your question?

In case it helps:

1) the "shim" package is _not_ installed on this system (which I guess isn't surprising, given that it doesn't use any of EFI, UEFI, grub etc. to boot...)

2) I believe I have the latest version of ubuntu-release-upgrader, my system reports:

# ubuntu-release-upgrader-core is already the newest version (1:20.10.12)