unable to upgrade from 22.04 to 23.10

[Chuck Forcelli]

unable to upgrade to launchpad ppa; removed ppa via ppa-purge and sudo add-apt-repository --remove commands
at a loss troubleshooting

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:22.04.19
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-41.41~22.04.2-generic 6.5.13
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-41-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Fri Jun 21 11:53:06 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-05-24 (27 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20240220)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2024-06-21 (0 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2024-06-10T10:24:04.450086