Upgrading ubuntu

[anil singhania]

Could not calculate the upgrade

An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

 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'.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.42
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-66.74~18.04.2-generic 5.4.86
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-66-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.23
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Mar 2 11:50:17 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-09-09 (539 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2021-03-02 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Reviewing the files from your upgrade attempt you have installed nodejs from a location other than the offical Ubuntu archive. This version of nodejs is greater than the one in the official archive and is keeping some python packages installed which then prevents the upgrade from being calculated. Please remove nodejs along with any other packages from that archive and disable the archive. After that you can try upgrading again and if it still fails open a new bug report. Thanks and good luck!