Error messages lost with "do-release-upgrade --frontend=DistUpgradeViewNonInteractive"
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Bug Description
I just tried to upgrade my Ubuntu 20.04.5 to 22.04.1 with:
do-release-upgrade --frontend=
I wanted a non-interactive upgrade because the repeated prompting makes the process take a long time (I wasn't looking at the terminal the whole time).
The non-interactive upgrade failed straight away. The reason was that there was not enough space in the /boot partition/
The problem with the command above is that the error message about the lack of enough disk space under /boot was not shown. Apparently, the DistUpgradeView
Option "--frontend=
I believe errors in non-interactive mode are still logged to /var/log/ dist-upgrade/ main.log (your failed attempt would be in /var/log/ dist-upgrade/ <date of failed attempt>/main.log.