background info: system had been installed under hardy heron and upgraded many times. Last running OS on this hardware config was 17.10 artful.
Many years have passed and very little of the original hardware hasn't been replaced. I decided I wanted to clean out the cruft and do a clean start. So I started with mythbuntu-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso from a USB stick. Additional xfs media disks / boot backups had to be disconnected. Otherwise the installer would hang. System was installed onto a clean partition. After the installation was finished and all apt upgrades were done, release was switched from lts to normal. From there I tried to run "do-release-upgrade" successively to get to 17.10. The last stage failed with the error above. After fixing the mythbuntu-desktop package problem by doing another "apt dist-upgrade" the final upgrade to 17.10 worked fine. So this may not be a bug, but rather a package configuration issue. The installer isn't very good at communicating underlying issues up to the user. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1739934 Title: release upgrade failing from zesty to artful To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1739934/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
