upgrade script show "unresolvable problem while calculating upgrade"

Bug #1895583 reported by TSandman
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This bug affects 3 people
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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Bug Description

Description: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
Release: 18.04

Got the following when trying to upgrade to 20.04 LTS

>sudo do-release-upgrade -d

Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [1,554 B]
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,342 kB]
Fetched 1,344 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
authenticate 'focal.tar.gz' against 'focal.tar.gz.gpg'
extracting 'focal.tar.gz'

Reading cache

Checking package manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done

Calculating the changes

Calculating the changes

Could not calculate the upgrade

An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

This was caused by:
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
This is most likely a transient problem,
please try again later.
If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the
command 'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a terminal. If
you want to investigate this yourself the log files in
'/var/log/dist-upgrade' will contain details about the upgrade.
Specifically, look at 'main.log' and 'apt.log'.

Restoring original system state

Aborting
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done

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Couldn't really undestand what's in /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log or apt.log

I tried removing every non-ubuntu repositories but I get the same things

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.38
Uname: Linux 5.7.1-050701-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.17
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Mon Sep 14 16:09:49 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-12-02 (287 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04.3 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190805)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2020-09-14 (0 days ago)

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TSandman (sandman-jumpspace) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Reviewing the files from your upgrade attempt you seem to have enabled a PPA that provides sane packages. This will prevent the upgrade as that PPA contains package version numbers greater than the release to which you are upgrading. You can revert the PPA by installing the ppa-purge package from the official Ubuntu archive and then running 'sudo ppa-purge ppa:sane-project/sane-git' or 'sudo ppa-purge ppa:sane-project/sane-release' . After that you can try upgrading again and if it still fails open a new bug report. Thanks and good luck!

Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
tags: added: ppa sane-ppa
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