Comment 40 for bug 127263

I am afraid none of the above allowed the upgrade to run on my system -

here is the output

wes@ubuntu:~$ sudo touch -t 197001010000 /var/lib/update-manager/meta-release
wes@ubuntu:~$ sudo upgrade-manager -d
sudo: upgrade-manager: command not found
wes@ubuntu:~$ sudo update-manager -d
warning: could not initiate dbus
extracting '/tmp/tmphTlaZf/gutsy.tar.gz'
authenticate '/tmp/tmphTlaZf/gutsy.tar.gz' against '/tmp/tmphTlaZf/gutsy.tar.gz.gpg'
could not send the dbus Inhibit signal: global name 'dbus' is not defined
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 914, in on_button_dist_upgrade_clicked
    fetcher.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/Core/DistUpgradeFetcherCore.py", line 178, in run
    self.runDistUpgrader()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/DistUpgradeFetcher.py", line 53, in runDistUpgrader
    if os.getuid() != 0:
NameError: global name 'os' is not defined