Public bug reported: I am not able to upgrade a server running 18.04.4 (HWE stack) to 20.04 LTS. There was some discussion about this on the ubuntu-server mailing list and a suggestion was made to update/install ca-certificates as a workaround, referencing lp:1796940, however that does not resolve the issue.
Interestingly, last Friday, the day after release, I was able to start an upgrade from Bionic to Focal on a NUC at home but I was forced to use -d as do-release-upgrade recognized Focal as a development release the day AFTER release. BUT, now a week later, I am completely unable to upgrade to Focal at all using do-release-upgrade. To verify, I did a fresh deployment of 18.04.4, fully updated it and then attempted to upgrade to focal using do-release-upgrade. ubuntu@drapion:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS" ubuntu@drapion:~$ apt-cache policy ca-certificates ca-certificates: Installed: 20180409 Candidate: 20180409 Version table: *** 20180409 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ubuntu@drapion:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release There is no development version of an LTS available. To upgrade to the latest non-LTS develoment release set Prompt=normal in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades. ubuntu@drapion:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade -d Checking for a new Ubuntu release Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading. I also tried setting Prompt=normal and that didn't make a difference either: ubuntu@drapion:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed InRelease Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: amd64-microcode intel-microcode iucode-tool libdbus-glib-1-2 linux-headers-generic-hwe-18.04-edge linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04-edge thermald Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. ubuntu@drapion:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading. ubuntu@drapion:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade -d Checking for a new Ubuntu release Upgrades to the development release are only available from the latest supported release. ubuntu@drapion:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade -p Checking for a new Ubuntu release Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading. ubuntu@drapion:~$ sudo dpkg -l |grep upgrade ii python3-distupgrade 1:18.04.37 all manage release upgrades ii ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.37 all manage release upgrades ii unattended-upgrades 1.1ubuntu1.18.04.14 all automatic installation of security upgrades ii update-manager-core 1:18.04.11.12 all manage release upgrades ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.37 ProcVersionSignature: User Name 5.3.0-51.44~18.04.2-generic 5.3.18 Uname: Linux 5.3.0-51-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14 Architecture: amd64 CrashDB: ubuntu Date: Sat May 2 06:00:38 2020 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=screen-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=C.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) modified.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: [modified] mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2020-05-02T05:55:27.831107 ** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic dist-upgrade uec-images ** Description changed: - I am not able to upgrade a server running 18.04.4 (HWE stack) to 20.04 LTS. There was some discussion about this on the ubuntu-server mailing list and a suggestion was made to update/install ca-certificates as a workaround, however, that does not seem to resolve the issue. - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1796940 + I am not able to upgrade a server running 18.04.4 (HWE stack) to 20.04 + LTS. There was some discussion about this on the ubuntu-server mailing + list and a suggestion was made to update/install ca-certificates as a + workaround, referencing lp:1796940, however that does not resolve the + issue. + + Interestingly, last Friday, the day after release, I was able to start + an upgrade from Bionic to Focal on a NUC at home but I was forced to use + -d as do-release-upgrade recognized Focal as a development release the + day AFTER release. BUT, now a week later, I am completely unable to + upgrade to Focal at all using do-release-upgrade. To verify, I did a fresh deployment of 18.04.4, fully updated it and then attempted to upgrade to focal using do-release-upgrade. ubuntu@drapion:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS" ubuntu@drapion:~$ apt-cache policy ca-certificates ca-certificates: Installed: 20180409 Candidate: 20180409 Version table: *** 20180409 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ubuntu@drapion:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release There is no development version of an LTS available. To upgrade to the latest non-LTS develoment release set Prompt=normal in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades. ubuntu@drapion:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade -d Checking for a new Ubuntu release Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading. I also tried setting Prompt=normal and that didn't make a difference either: ubuntu@drapion:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease - Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed InRelease - Reading package lists... Done + Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed InRelease Reading package lists... Done - Building dependency tree + Reading package lists... Done + Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: amd64-microcode intel-microcode iucode-tool libdbus-glib-1-2 linux-headers-generic-hwe-18.04-edge linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04-edge thermald Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. ubuntu@drapion:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading. ubuntu@drapion:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade -d Checking for a new Ubuntu release Upgrades to the development release are only available from the latest supported release. ubuntu@drapion:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade -p Checking for a new Ubuntu release Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading. ubuntu@drapion:~$ sudo dpkg -l |grep upgrade ii python3-distupgrade 1:18.04.37 all manage release upgrades ii ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.37 all manage release upgrades ii unattended-upgrades 1.1ubuntu1.18.04.14 all automatic installation of security upgrades ii update-manager-core 1:18.04.11.12 all manage release upgrades ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.37 ProcVersionSignature: User Name 5.3.0-51.44~18.04.2-generic 5.3.18 Uname: Linux 5.3.0-51-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14 Architecture: amd64 CrashDB: ubuntu Date: Sat May 2 06:00:38 2020 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: - TERM=screen-256color - PATH=(custom, no user) - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> - LANG=C.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + TERM=screen-256color + PATH=(custom, no user) + XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> + LANG=C.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) modified.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: [modified] mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2020-05-02T05:55:27.831107 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1876420 Title: do-release-upgrade does not work to upgrade to 20.04 LTS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1876420/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
