Hi there, I've searched a bit among existing reports and i think/hope this is the right place to add my information. I recently struggled about important information which is missing when executing do-release-upgrade on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. After execution it reported: no new release found even though Ubuntu 14.04. LTS is available.
As far as i understood, do-release-upgrade checks servers mentioned in /etc/update-manager/meta-release for upgrades. I figured out that the the effected machines have links to local repositorys which allows e.g. "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" to work. However no local records for the meta-release files are given and the local network configuration blocks requests to: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release and http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts due to a centralized Firewall, leading to the very confusing output of "no new release found" even though it did not even look, since the request was blocked by firewall. Since i was not fully familiar with the network structure here, it took me some time to make sense out of this message. I would suggest that the do-release-upgrade script should check if it can reach the registered meta-release servers and then provides a useful output like "Unable to reach Meta-Release server http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release- lts". This enhancement would be very much appreciated :-) Regards, Dennis -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1048285 Title: Add some diagnostics to do-release-upgrade when it can't find a release To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1048285/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
