trying to upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 with upgrade tool

[Eric Atchison]

ubunto 12.04 lts
trying to upgrade to 12.10 with update manager
expected update
pdate caused error

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.156.14.13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-38.56~precise1-generic 3.8.13.19
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-38-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 21 15:43:14 2014
GsettingsChanges:
 com.ubuntu.update-manager first-run false
 com.ubuntu.update-manager launch-time 1398112809
 com.ubuntu.update-manager window-height 500
 com.ubuntu.update-manager window-width 600
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20130820.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2014-04-21 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This failed because you have lts-raring packages installed which are greater than the version in quantal. The supported upgrade path for you is from Precise to Trusty.