my upgrade to noble went up in flames

[Brian Murray]

Seriously, it was like a fire tornado on planet Hellmire. I'm lucky I didn't get burned.

ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:24.04.12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-22.22-generic 6.8.1
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset wl nvidia zfs
ApportVersion: 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Apr 16 15:58:54 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-08-10 (2076 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
PackageArchitecture: allSourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2024-04-16 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeXorgFixuplog:
 INFO:root:/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade running
 INFO:root:No xorg.conf, exiting
modified.conffile..etc.update-manager.meta-release: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.meta-release: 2021-05-27T16:30:16.970490

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

One strange thing I see in Mainlog.txt is that the canonical-kernel-team PPA was disabled and then enabled. This could be because I wanted to use my local mirror of the archive but that's not clear to me.

2024-04-16 12:54:58,962 DEBUG examining: 'deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/canonical-kernel-team/bootstrap/ubuntu/ mantic main'
2024-04-16 12:54:58,963 DEBUG entry '# deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/canonical-kernel-team/bootstrap/ubuntu/ noble main # disabled on upgrade to noble' was disabled (unknown mirror)
...
2024-04-16 12:55:03,507 DEBUG examining: 'deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/canonical-kernel-team/bootstrap/ubuntu/ mantic main'
2024-04-16 12:55:03,507 DEBUG verifySourcesListEntry: deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/canonical-kernel-team/bootstrap/ubuntu/ noble main
2024-04-16 12:55:03,507 DEBUG url_downloadable: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/canonical-kernel-team/bootstrap/ubuntu//dists/noble/Release
2024-04-16 12:55:03,507 DEBUG s='https' n='ppa.launchpadcontent.net' p='/canonical-kernel-team/bootstrap/ubuntu//dists/noble/Release' q='' f=''
2024-04-16 12:55:03,947 DEBUG entry 'deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/canonical-kernel-team/bootstrap/ubuntu/ noble main' updated to new dist

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The thunderbird install failure is documented in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/2061918.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Not important but why does Screenlog.txt include my upgrade to Cosmic?

[Nick Rosbrook (enr0n)]

> One strange thing I see in Mainlog.txt is that the canonical-kernel-team PPA was disabled and then enabled. This could be because I wanted to use my local mirror of the archive but that's not clear to me.

Yeah, if you said "Yes" to the prompt "While scanning your repository information no mirror entry for the upgrade was found...", then it has the effect of running with --allow-third-party. So it is expected that this would keep the kernel PPA enabled.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Looking at the dialog again it says "Do you want to rewrite your 'sources.list' file anyway?" not "Do you want to rewrite every sources file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ file anyway?". So I think it is surprising that this had the effect of running with --allow-third-party.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.