After updating your package information, the essential package 'ubuntu-minimal' could not be located.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
release upgrade 16.04 to 18.04 stopped due to 'After updating your package information, the essential package 'ubuntu-minimal' could not be located.'
further installation of ubuntu-minimal fails because of the package is present
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubuntu-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-142-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.30
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Sat Jun 12 14:55:42 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-09-09 (1371 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170801)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: ubuntu-
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2021-06-12 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgra
Log time: 2021-06-12 14:55:11.636484
Log time: 2021-06-12 14:55:15.577442
Log time: 2021-06-12 14:55:42.440471
Log time: 2021-06-12 14:55:44.713797
tags: | added: xenial2bionic |
Thanks for your bug report and for your contribution to Ubuntu.
Could you please add the /var/log/ dist-upgrade/ apt.log file from your upgrade attempt to the bug report as an attachment? Thanks in advance.