Doing "/usr/bin/gnome-session-inhibit --inhibit idle --inhibit-only" on Xenial seems to work fine so the issue seems to be on the ubuntu- release-upgrader side. Is the process using the correct user environment (uid, dbus session bus, etc) to talk to the active session?
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