Comment 20 for bug 1922297

# Upgrading Xenial to Bionic on GCE (again with more logs this time)

1. Launched GCE instance
2. Installed google-cloud-sdk snap
3. Updated system
4. Verified the tracking channel was updated

$ sudo snap install google-cloud-sdk --channel latest/stable/ubuntu-16.04 --classic
2021-04-21T16:41:37Z INFO Waiting for automatic snapd restart...
google-cloud-sdk 337.0.0 from Cloud SDK (google-cloud-sdk✓) installed
$ sudo snap info google-cloud-sdk
name: google-cloud-sdk
summary: Command-line interface for Google Cloud Platform products and services
publisher: Cloud SDK (google-cloud-sdk✓)
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/google-cloud-sdk
contact: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/
license: unset
description: |
  Command-line interface for Google Cloud Platform products and services
commands:
  - google-cloud-sdk.anthoscli
  - google-cloud-sdk.bq
  - google-cloud-sdk.docker-credential-gcloud
  - google-cloud-sdk.gcloud
  - google-cloud-sdk.gsutil
  - google-cloud-sdk.kubectl
snap-id: MJbt3BgxESyOON7gqKVEnA06NLRM3Dxd
tracking: latest/stable/ubuntu-16.04
refresh-date: today at 16:41 UTC
channels:
  latest/stable: 337.0.0 2021-04-20 (178) 237MB classic
  latest/candidate: ↑
  latest/beta: 337.0.0 2021-04-20 (178) 237MB classic
  latest/edge: 337.0.0 2021-04-20 (178) 237MB classic
installed: 337.0.0 (178) 237MB classic
$ do-release-upgrade -p
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [819 B]
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,247 kB]
Fetched 1,248 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
authenticate 'bionic.tar.gz' against 'bionic.tar.gz.gpg'
extracting 'bionic.tar.gz'
[screen is terminating]
$ sudo snap info google-cloud-sdk
name: google-cloud-sdk
summary: Command-line interface for Google Cloud Platform products and services
publisher: Cloud SDK (google-cloud-sdk✓)
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/google-cloud-sdk
contact: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/
license: unset
description: |
  Command-line interface for Google Cloud Platform products and services
commands:
  - google-cloud-sdk.anthoscli
  - google-cloud-sdk.bq
  - google-cloud-sdk.docker-credential-gcloud
  - google-cloud-sdk.gcloud
  - google-cloud-sdk.gsutil
  - google-cloud-sdk.kubectl
snap-id: MJbt3BgxESyOON7gqKVEnA06NLRM3Dxd
tracking: latest/stable/ubuntu-18.04
refresh-date: today at 16:41 UTC
channels:
  latest/stable: 337.0.0 2021-04-20 (178) 237MB classic
  latest/candidate: ↑
  latest/beta: 337.0.0 2021-04-20 (178) 237MB classic
  latest/edge: 337.0.0 2021-04-20 (178) 237MB classic
installed: 337.0.0 (178) 237MB classic
$ grep "release-upgrader version" /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log
2021-04-21 16:42:07,419 INFO release-upgrader version '18.04.40' started