unable to fully update ubuntu

[J Baird]

"Impossible to install required package. Please report this as bug using "ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core" message. Submitted bug report. Dont know where bug report is located on system to copy to this location.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:16.04.23
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-112.135-generic 4.4.98
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-112-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
Architecture: i386
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Feb 16 11:17:05 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-12-11 (1162 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140417)
JournalErrors:
 Error: command ['journalctl', '-b', '--priority=warning', '--lines=1000'] failed with exit code 1: Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
       Users in the 'systemd-journal' group can see all messages. Pass -q to
       turn off this notice.
 No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions.
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog: