Yeah, I've been doing "do-release-upgrade" from the CLI. I've also tried the GUI updater and it has the same results "The system was unable to get the prerequisites for the upgrade".
R ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Murray" <br...@ubuntu.com> To: "not robb" <not.r...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 10:55:08 AM Subject: [Bug 822910] Re: 6.06 upgrade fails due to bad repo? To be clear you are using update-manager from the command to upgrade your server from 6.06 to 8.04 is that correct? ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/822910 Title: 6.06 upgrade fails due to bad repo? Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Trying to upgrade a server from 6.06 to 8.04. I think it's failing because it can't find http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main/debian-installer That missing repo seems to automatically get added to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/prerequists-sources.dapper.list I have do not have any backports enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list. I've tried commenting out the line in prerequists-sources.dapper.list and making the file read-only, but it still gets added when I try to upgrade. Is this something you're able to update on the copy of prerequists- sources.dapper.list that gets pushed out? Here is a copy of /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/prerequists-sources.dapper.list -- Happy to provide more info if it's useful....... http://pastebin.com/vnsfvvdq To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/822910/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/822910 Title: 6.06 upgrade fails due to bad repo? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/822910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs