Upgrade from 22.04 to 24.04.1 not offered anymore

[Bejamin Hastings]

Between Aug 29 and Sep 2nd the upgrade was offered when running do-release-upgrade. Now it isn't offered anymore.

/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
is set to

Prompt=lts

See also https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1f8hhgh/upgrade_to_lts_24041_server_withdrawn/

1) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Release: 22.04

2) apt-cache policy ubuntu-release-upgrader-core
ubuntu-release-upgrader-core:
  Installed: 1:22.04.19
  Candidate: 1:22.04.19
  Version table:
 *** 1:22.04.19 500
        500 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:22.04.10 500
        500 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages

3) What you expected to happen
Upgrade to Ubuntu server 24.04.1 LTS being offered

4) What happened instead
sudo do-release-upgrade

Checking for a new Ubuntu release
There is no development version of an LTS available.
To upgrade to the latest non-LTS development release
set Prompt=normal in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:22.04.19
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-1025.26~22.04.1-azure 6.5.13
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-1025-azure x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.6
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CloudArchitecture: x86_64
CloudID: none
CloudName: none
CloudPlatform: none
CloudSubPlatform: config
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Wed Sep 4 06:06:07 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-05-18 (1204 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 20.04.2 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210201.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2024-03-29 (158 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeLspcitxt:

VarLogDistupgradeXorgFixuplog:
 INFO:root:/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade running
 INFO:root:No xorg.conf, exiting

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Thomas Hoffmann (tomho)]

The page https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts doesn't contain version 24.01 any more
which is referenced in /etc/update-manager/meta-release
I think version 24 appeared there before.

[Moshe Caspi (mcaspi12)]

It looks like a feature and not a bug in the upgrading process because of a critical bug in one or more of the packages. So Canonical doesn't want users to experience the issue, and stopped the upgrading process. I would wait patiently for the offer.

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

If people are interested; I'll provide

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2024-September/006225.html

For now I also suggest waiting as Moshe/mcaspi12 suggested.

[Bejamin Hastings (benhastings)]

I initially reported this as a bug, but I have come to understand that the upgrade was withdrawn (removed from https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts) and this is why it is not offered anymore. This does not seem to be a bug in the ubuntu-release-upgrader package. As such, I believe this bug report should be closed.

[Ravi Kant Sharma (ravi-sharma)]

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2024-September/006230.html

[M@ts (mats-900)]

Hi The title is incorrect.
Today I have answered no thanks 2 times, to upgrade 22.04.5 LTS to 24.04.1, I have tried once before Disaster.
If you are interested, you can start reading my incorrect bug report 2078592 further
question 819255 i.a. tangles with 22.04.5 and 24.04.1
Have a good day

// M@ts