I've been trying to update my Itanium workstation to Gutsy for quite some time now. I even tried a 'clean' install only to roll back to Feisty. Every time I try to upgrade IA64 to Gutsy, I see following messages:
"Getting upgrade prerequisites failed
The system was unable to get the prerequisites for the upgrade. The upgrade will abort now and restore the original system state.
Please report this as a bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport."
After following bug report's suggestion, I go to /var/log/dist-upgrade and this is what I see:
I've been trying to update my Itanium workstation to Gutsy for quite some time now. I even tried a 'clean' install only to roll back to Feisty. Every time I try to upgrade IA64 to Gutsy, I see following messages:
"Getting upgrade prerequisites failed dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport."
The system was unable to get the prerequisites for the upgrade. The upgrade will abort now and restore the original system state.
Please report this as a bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/
After following bug report's suggestion, I go to /var/log/ dist-upgrade and this is what I see:
[nobody@ system: /var/log/ dist-upgrade] $ system: /var/log/ dist-upgrade] $
$=> ls -ltr
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2007-12-26 10:43 apt.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2007-12-26 11:14 term.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5080 2007-12-26 11:14 main.log
[nobody@
$=>
There is no 'bugreport.*'. I guess, this is another "bug" to report. In any case, main.log reports this:
$=> cat main.log ports() us.archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu/ dists/feisty- backports/ main/debian- installer/ binary- ia64/Packages. gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80] ftp.esat. net/mirrors/ archive. ubuntu. com/dists/ feisty/ main/binary- ia64/Packages. gz 404 Not Found ports.ubuntu. com/ubuntu- ports/dists/ feisty/ main/source/ Sources. gz 404 Not Found ftp.esat. net/mirrors/ archive. ubuntu. com/dists/ feisty- security/ main/binary- ia64/Packages. gz 404 Not Found ports.ubuntu. com/ubuntu- ports/dists/ feisty/ restricted/ source/ Sources. gz 404 Not Found ftp.esat. net/mirrors/ archive. ubuntu. com/dists/ feisty- security/ restricted/ binary- ia64/Packages. gz 404 Not Found ftp.esat. net/mirrors/ archive. ubuntu. com/dists/ feisty- updates/ main/binary- ia64/Packages. gz 404 Not Found ftp.esat. net/mirrors/ archive. ubuntu. com/dists/ feisty- updates/ restricted/ binary- ia64/Packages. gz 404 Not Found ports.ubuntu. com/ubuntu- ports/dists/ feisty- updates/ main/source/ Sources. gz 404 Not Found ports.ubuntu. com/ubuntu- ports/dists/ feisty- updates/ restricted/ source/ Sources. gz 404 Not Found ports.ubuntu. com/ubuntu- ports/dists/ feisty- security/ main/source/ Sources. gz 404 Not Found ports.ubuntu. com/ubuntu- ports/dists/ feisty- security/ restricted/ source/ Sources. gz 404 Not Found us.archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu/ dists/feisty- backports/ main/debian- installer/ binary- ia64/Packages. gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.45 80] ftp.esat. net/mirrors/ archive. ubuntu. com/dists/ feisty/ main/binary- ia64/Packages. gz 404 Not Found ports.ubuntu. com/ubuntu- ports/dists/ feisty/ main/source/ Sources. gz 404 Not Found ports.ubuntu. com/ubuntu- ports/dists/ feisty/ restricted/ source/ Sources. gz 404 Not Found ftp.esat. net/mirrors/ archive. ubuntu. com/dists/ feisty- security/ main/binary- ia64/Packages. gz 404 Not Found ftp.esat. net/mirrors/ archive. ubuntu. com/dists/ feisty- security/ restricted/ binary- ia64/Packages. gz 404 Not Found ftp.esat. net/mirrors/ archive. ubuntu. com/dists/ feisty- updates/ main/binary- ia64/Packages. gz 404 Not Found ports.ubuntu. com/ubuntu- ports/dists/ feisty- updates/ main/source/ Sources. gz 404 Not Found ftp.esat. net/mirrors/ archive. ubuntu. com/dists/ feisty- updates/ restricted/ binary- ia64/Packages. gz 404 Not Found ports.ubuntu. com/ubuntu- ports/dists/ feisty- updates/ restricted/ source/ Sources. gz 404 Not Found ports.ubuntu. com/ubuntu- ports/dists/ feisty- security/ main/source/ Sources. gz 404 Not Found ports.ubuntu. com/ubuntu- ports/dists/ feisty- security/ restricted/ source/ Sources. gz 404 Not Found ftp.esat. net/mirrors/ archive. ubuntu. com/dists/ feisty/ main/binary- ia64/Packages. gz 404 Not Found us.archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu/ dists/feisty- backports/ main/debian- installer/ binary- ia64/Packages. gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80] ftp.esat. net/mirrors/ archive. ubuntu. com/dists/ feisty- security/ main/binary- ia64/Packages. gz 404 Not Found ports.ubuntu. com/ubuntu- ports/dists/ feisty/ main/source/ Sources. gz 404 Not Found ftp.esat. net/mirrors/ archive. ubuntu. com/dists/ feisty- security/ restricted/ binary- ia64/Packages. gz 404 Not Found ports.ubuntu. com/ubuntu- ports/dists/ feisty/ restricted/ source/ Sources. gz 404 Not Found ftp.esat. net/mirrors/ archive. ubuntu. com/dists/ feisty- updates/ main/binary- ia64/Packages. gz 404 Not Found ftp.esat. net/mirrors/ archive. ubuntu. com/dists/ feisty- updates/ restricted/ binary- ia64/Packages. gz 404 Not Found ports.ubuntu. com/ubuntu- ports/dists/ feisty- updates/ main/source/ Sources. gz 404 Not Found ports.ubuntu. com/ubuntu- ports/dists/ feisty- updates/ restricted/ source/ Sources. gz 404 Not Found ports.ubuntu. com/ubuntu- ports/dists/ feisty- security/ main/source/ Sources. gz 404 Not Found ports.ubuntu. com/ubuntu- ports/dists/ feisty- security/ restricted/ source/ Sources. gz 404 Not Found upgrader- apt'
2007-12-26 11:14:39,579 INFO release-upgrader version '0.81' started
2007-12-26 11:14:40,352 DEBUG lsb-release: 'feisty'
2007-12-26 11:14:40,353 DEBUG _pythonSymlinkCheck run
2007-12-26 11:14:40,965 DEBUG checkViewDepends()
2007-12-26 11:14:40,966 DEBUG getRequiredBack
2007-12-26 11:14:43,845 ERROR IOError in cache.update(): 'Failed to fetch http://
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'. Retrying (currentRetry: 0)
2007-12-26 11:14:46,556 ERROR IOError in cache.update(): 'Failed to fetch http://
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2007-12-26 11:14:49,354 ERROR IOError in cache.update(): 'Failed to fetch http://
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2007-12-26 11:14:49,355 ERROR doUpdate() failed complettely
2007-12-26 11:14:49,965 ERROR Can not find backport 'release-
Any ideas why those packages are missing?