upgrade does not work

[ill]

when running do-release-upgrade, I get a Can not run the upgrade error.

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[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the log files from '/var/log/dist-upgrade/' to this bug report as separate attachments? Thanks in advance.

[ill (illumilore)]

main

[ill (illumilore)]

main.log doesn't add

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

We really need main.log to figure out why the upgrade failed. Perhaps the permissions on the file need to be changed so that you can read it?

[ill (illumilore)]

# cat main.log
2012-10-29 16:29:02,064 INFO Using config files '['./DistUpgrade.cfg']'
2012-10-29 16:29:02,065 INFO uname information: 'Linux Inspiron-1525 3.3.0-030300-generic #201203182135 SMP Mon Mar 19 01:36:20 UTC 2012 x86_64'
2012-10-29 16:29:02,065 INFO apt version: '0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.5'
2012-10-29 16:29:02,065 INFO release-upgrader version '0.190.3' started
2012-10-29 16:29:02,207 DEBUG Using 'DistUpgradeViewText' view
2012-10-29 16:29:02,256 DEBUG aufsOptionsAndEnvironmentSetup()
2012-10-29 16:29:02,257 DEBUG using '/tmp/upgrade-rw-eqsdk2' as aufs_rw_dir
2012-10-29 16:29:02,257 DEBUG using '/tmp/upgrade-chroot-odERQJ' as aufs chroot dir
2012-10-29 16:29:02,258 DEBUG enable dpkg --force-overwrite
2012-10-29 16:29:02,273 DEBUG creating statefile: '/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz'
2012-10-29 16:29:07,661 DEBUG lsb-release: 'precise'
2012-10-29 16:29:07,662 DEBUG _pythonSymlinkCheck run
2012-10-29 16:29:07,663 DEBUG openCache()
2012-10-29 16:29:07,664 DEBUG No such plugin directory: ./plugins
2012-10-29 16:29:07,664 DEBUG plugins for condition 'PreCacheOpen' are '[]'
2012-10-29 16:29:07,664 DEBUG plugins for condition 'quantalPreCacheOpen' are '[]'
2012-10-29 16:29:07,664 DEBUG plugins for condition 'from_precisePreCacheOpen' are '[]'
2012-10-29 16:29:07,665 DEBUG quirks: running PreCacheOpen
2012-10-29 16:29:07,665 DEBUG running Quirks.PreCacheOpen
2012-10-29 16:29:08,576 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 59839
2012-10-29 16:29:08,576 DEBUG need_server_mode(): run in 'desktop' mode, (because of pkg 'kubuntu-desktop')
2012-10-29 16:29:08,577 DEBUG checkViewDepends()
2012-10-29 16:29:08,577 DEBUG running doUpdate() (showErrors=False)
2012-10-29 16:29:11,539 DEBUG openCache()
2012-10-29 16:29:12,457 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 59839
2012-10-29 16:29:12,457 DEBUG doPostInitialUpdate
2012-10-29 16:29:12,458 DEBUG plugins for condition 'PostInitialUpdate' are '[]'
2012-10-29 16:29:12,458 DEBUG plugins for condition 'quantalPostInitialUpdate' are '[]'
2012-10-29 16:29:12,458 DEBUG plugins for condition 'from_precisePostInitialUpdate' are '[]'
2012-10-29 16:29:12,459 DEBUG quirks: running from_precisePostInitialUpdate
2012-10-29 16:29:19,057 DEBUG Foreign: libqt4-designer libkactivities6 libmicroblog4 libakonadi-calendar4 libkcalutils4 libkscreensaver5 libkabc4 libmusicbrainz5-0 libcalendarsupport4 kdepim-strigi-plugins libqt4-dbus adobe-flash-properties-gtk libgpgme++2 kate tasks-icons libkpimutils4 kde-window-manager plasma-netbook kdepim-runtime okular kde-workspace-bin system-config-printer-kde adobe-flashplugin kdelibs5-dbg libqt4-declarative libsolidcontrol4abi2 libkatepartinterfaces4 libkolab0 ksnapshot libkresources4 plasma-dataengines-workspace libkdewebkit5 klipper kaccessible libkwinglutils1abi1 libqt4-sql-mysql plasma-widgets-workspace krdc libkdecore5 libkdecorations4abi1 libkwinnvidiahack4 libkpty4 kde-wallpapers amarok-utils libthreadweaver4 ksysguardd plasma-widget-kimpanel libkholidays4 libweather-ion6 libnepomukquery4a libkdeui5 libplasmagenericshell4 libmailcommon4 plasma-dataengines-addons kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdenetwork-filesharing libnepomukutils4 libqt4-scripttools libknewstuff2-4 libk...

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The main.log file is from 2012-10-29, have you tried the upgrade more recently than then?

[ill (illumilore)]

Yes, tried it more than once in the past three days.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

What is the output of 'do-release-upgrade -f DistUpgradeViewGtk3' when run in a terminal?

[ill (illumilore)]

$ do-release-upgrade -f DistUpgradeViewGtk3
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade", line 144, in <module>
    fetcher = get_fetcher(options.frontend, m.new_dist, options.data_dir)
  File "/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade", line 31, in get_fetcher
    _("Downloading the release upgrade tool"))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/GtkProgress.py", line 36, in __init__
    self.widgets = SimpleGtkbuilderApp(uifile, "ubuntu-release-upgrader")
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/SimpleGtk3builderApp.py", line 32, in __init__
    self.builder.add_from_file(path)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/types.py", line 47, in function
    return info.invoke(*args, **kwargs)
gi._glib.GError: Failed to open file '/usr/share/ubuntu-release-upgrader/gtkbuilder/AcquireProgress.ui': No such file or directory

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Oh, if you are using kde this would work better for you:

do-release-upgrade -f DistUpgradeViewKDE

otherwise use:

do-release-upgrade -f DistUpgradeViewText

[ill (illumilore)]

$ do-release-upgrade -f DistUpgradeViewKD
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [198 B]
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,206 kB]
Fetched 1,206 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
authenticate 'raring.tar.gz' against 'raring.tar.gz.gpg'
extracting 'raring.tar.gz'
Can not run the upgrade
This usually is caused by a system where /tmp is mounted noexec. Please remount without noexec and run the upgrade again.

[Richard Cheung (richardcheung-hk)]

I am also having this problem!

When I try to run do-release-upgrade (from 12.10 to 13.04), the following message occurred.

$ sudo do-release-upgrade
[sudo] password for admin:
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [198 B]
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,206 kB]
Fetched 1,206 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
authenticate 'raring.tar.gz' against 'raring.tar.gz.gpg'
extracting 'raring.tar.gz'
Can not run the upgrade
The error message is 'No such file or directory'.

Someone said it is about the /tmp is not mount as exec but I have mounted it to be

$ mount
/dev/vda1 on / type ext4 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)

$ uname -a
Linux ldap 3.5.0-30-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Tue May 14 18:47:48 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Anyone has an idea on this?

[Richard Cheung (richardcheung-hk)]

Please refer to this
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/994152