ok, now going from 23.04 to 23.10, see (8)...G** file

[e]

Error during update

A problem occurred during the update. This is usually some sort of
network problem, please check your network connection and retry.

W:http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/mantic/InRelease: Key is
stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the
DEPRECATION section in apt-key(8) for details.,
W:http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/mantic-updates/InRelease:
Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg),
see the DEPRECATION section in apt-key(8) for details., E:The
repository 'http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu kinetic Release' does
not have a Release file., W:Updating from such a repository can't be
done securely, and is therefore disabled by default., W:See
apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration
details.,
W:http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/mantic-security/InRelease:
Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg),
see the DEPRECATION section in apt-key(8) for details., E:The
repository 'http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu kinetic-updates
Release' does not have a Release file., W:Updating from such a
repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by
default., W:See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and
user configuration details.,
W:http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/mantic-backports/InRelease:
Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg),
see the DEPRECATION section in apt-key(8) for details.

Restoring original system state

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

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:23.04.7
Uname: Linux 6.0.8-060008-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CrashDB: ubuntu
CrashReports:
 640:1000:124:1548594:2023-12-27 17:57:48.771895638 -0800:2023-12-27 17:57:45.819960197 -0800:/var/crash/_usr_bin_wireplumber.1000.crash
 640:1000:124:14080910:2023-12-22 13:41:07.956473112 -0800:2023-12-22 13:41:08.956473112 -0800:/var/crash/_usr_bin_systemsettings.1000.crash
 644:0:0:296:2023-12-22 14:02:31.458848049 -0800:2023-12-22 13:41:51.461512576 -0800:/var/crash/kexec_cmd
 644:0:0:0:2023-12-27 20:49:30.696808657 -0800:2023-12-27 18:37:13.840314301 -0800:/var/crash/kdump_lock
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Wed Dec 27 21:23:28 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-03-03 (664 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Alpha amd64 (20220226)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to lunar on 2023-12-28 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog:
 Log time: 2023-12-27 21:16:28.475826
 Log time: 2023-12-27 21:16:30.815774
 Log time: 2023-12-27 21:16:55.359912
mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2022-06-07T21:47:37.447272

[e (eric-w-hedlund)]

the network is connected per app cmd "speedtest" and functional otherwise, downloading and uploading email, browser https webpages, and so forth

[e (eric-w-hedlund)]

tried reverting to previous kernel and operating system, same error, seems, but otherwise operable, have not tried a fresh install