20.04 LTS upgrade fails

[Dave Cutler]

The error message doesn't say what went wrong, but fails to install the 20.04 LTS upgrade. The first time I tried to upgrade is had an error on 3rd party software so I disabled all 3rd party sources and tried again. Still fails, but doesn't say why.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.44
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-142.146-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-142-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.23
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Apr 29 16:54:06 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-12-20 (1591 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2021-04-29 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this upgrade failure. There is currently a new version of the release upgrader available in -proposed which may resolve the error you've encountered. Please run the following command to test the new version of the upgrader:

  do-release-upgrade -p

Please lets us know the results in this bug report. Thanks again and good luck!

[Dave Cutler (dcutler0627)]

This fixed my problem. I have successfully installed 20.04 LTS. Thanx!