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ubuntu-release-upgrader package

  1. Trusty (14.04)
  2. Bug #1310891
  3. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1310891

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uwe (maabdulhaq) wrote : Re: attempting to trigger upgrade from 13.04 (raring) to 13.10 (saucy) claims that No new release found

I did;

tried this :

# DEBUG_UPDATE_MANAGER=1 /usr/bin/do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
MetaRelease.__init__() useDevel=False useProposed=False
/etc/update-manager/meta-release: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release
/etc/update-manager/meta-release: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts
/etc/update-manager/meta-release: -development
/etc/update-manager/meta-release: -proposed
metarelease-uri: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release
MetaRelease.download()
reading file '/var/lib/update-manager/meta-release'
have self.metarelease_information
MetaRelease.parse()
current dist name: 'raring'
current dist not found in meta-release file

No new release found
root@taz:~# cat /var/lib/update-manager/meta-release
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xml:lang="ar" lang="ar" dir="rtl" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
  <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/>

removed /var/lib/update-manager/meta-release ; now things seem to go fine. yet I don't know why it is not attempting to remove old/corrupted/wrong files or refresh their content ...