*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1611737 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1611737

i am facing this issue as well. can't understand why though. i have
disabled all non ubuntu packages from apt source to the best of my
knowledge. any help is appreciated


karun@karunlindev3:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [819 B]                                            
                                                                             
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,258 kB]                                                   
                                                                             
Fetched 1,259 kB in 0s (0 B/s)                                                  
                                                                             
authenticate 'bionic.tar.gz' against 'bionic.tar.gz.gpg' 
extracting 'bionic.tar.gz'

Reading cache

Checking package manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                        
                                                                             
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease                
                                                                             
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease              
                                                                             
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [107 kB]      
                                                                             
Fetched 107 kB in 0s (0 B/s)                                                    
                                                                             
Reading package lists... Done    
Building dependency tree          
Reading state information... Done

Updating repository information
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease [242 kB]             
                                                                             
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [83.2 kB]     
                                                                             
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]    
                                                                             
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]  
                                                                             
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages [1,019 kB] 
                                                                             
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages [1,007 kB]  
                                                                             
Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main Translation-en [516 kB]   
                                                                             
Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata 
[477 kB]                                                                        
 
Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main DEP-11 64x64 Icons [245 
kB]                                                                            
Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/restricted amd64 Packages 
[9,184 B]                                                                       
 
Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/restricted i386 Packages 
[9,156 B]                                                                       
  
Get:12 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/restricted Translation-en 
[3,584 B]                                                                       
 
Get:13 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages 
[8,570 kB]                                                                      
   
Get:14 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64 Packages 
[168 kB]                                                                        
Get:15 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main i386 Packages 
[134 kB]                                                                        
 
Get:16 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe i386 Packages [8,531 
kB]                                                                          
Get:17 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main Translation-en 
[63.6 kB]                                                                       
Get:18 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64 DEP-11 
Metadata [204 B]                                                                
  
Get:19 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main DEP-11 64x64 
Icons [29 B]                                                                    
  
Get:20 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/universe amd64 
Packages [66.8 kB]                                                              
     
Get:21 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/universe i386 Packages 
[66.7 kB]                                                                    
Get:22 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/universe 
Translation-en [39.3 kB]                                                        
           
Get:23 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 
Metadata [6,844 B]                                                            
Get:24 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/universe DEP-11 64x64 
Icons [11.3 kB]                                                               
Get:25 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/multiverse amd64 
Packages [1,444 B]                                                              
   
Get:26 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/multiverse i386 
Packages [1,608 B]                                                              
    
Get:27 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe Translation-en 
[4,941 kB]                                                                      
   
Get:28 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/multiverse 
Translation-en [996 B]                                                          
         
Get:29 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 DEP-11 
Metadata [3,287 kB]                                                             
     
Get:30 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe DEP-11 64x64 Icons 
[8,420 kB]                                                                     
Get:31 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse amd64 Packages 
[151 kB]                                                                        
 
Get:32 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse i386 Packages [144 
kB]                                                                          
Get:33 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse Translation-en 
[108 kB]                                                                        
 
Get:34 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 
Metadata [49.7 kB]                                                              
   
Get:35 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse DEP-11 64x64 Icons 
[225 kB]                                                                     
Get:36 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages 
[328 kB]                                                                       
Get:37 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 Packages 
[293 kB]                                                                        
Get:38 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main Translation-en 
[125 kB]                                                                       
Get:39 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 
Metadata [139 kB]                                                               
 
Get:40 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main DEP-11 64x64 
Icons [56.9 kB]                                                                 
 
Get:41 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe amd64 
Packages [199 kB]                                                               
    
Get:42 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe i386 
Packages [199 kB]                                                               
     
Get:43 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe 
Translation-en [94.1 kB]                                                        
          
Get:44 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe amd64 DEP-11 
Metadata [166 kB]                                                            
Get:45 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe DEP-11 64x64 
Icons [290 kB]                                                               
Get:46 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/multiverse amd64 
Packages [4,180 B]                                                              
  
Get:47 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/multiverse i386 
Packages [4,336 B]                                                              
   
Get:48 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/multiverse 
Translation-en [2,740 B]                                                        
        
Get:49 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/multiverse amd64 
DEP-11 Metadata [2,468 B]                                                       
  
Get:50 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/multiverse DEP-11 
64x64 Icons [2,638 B]                                                           
 
Get:51 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports/universe amd64 
Packages [2,852 B]                                                              
  
Get:52 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports/universe i386 
Packages [2,848 B]                                                              
   
Get:53 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports/universe 
Translation-en [1,200 B]                                                        
        
Get:54 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports/universe amd64 
DEP-11 Metadata [5,100 B]                                                       
  
Get:55 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports/universe DEP-11 
64x64 Icons [1,789 B]                                                           
 
Fetched 40.7 MB in 0s (0 B/s)                                                   
                                                                             

(appstreamcli:15961): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strchug: assertion 'string !=
NULL' failed

(appstreamcli:15961): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strchomp: assertion 'string !=
NULL' failed

(appstreamcli:15961): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strchug: assertion 'string !=
NULL' failed

(appstreamcli:15961): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strchomp: assertion 'string !=
NULL' failed

(appstreamcli:15961): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strchug: assertion 'string !=
NULL' failed

(appstreamcli:15961): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strchomp: assertion 'string != NULL' 
failed
AppStream cache update completed, but some metadata was ignored due to errors.

Checking package manager
Reading package lists... Done    
Building dependency tree          
Reading state information... Done

Calculating the changes

Calculating the changes

Could not calculate the upgrade

An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

This can be caused by: 
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu 
* Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu 
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu 

If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the 
command 'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a terminal. 


Restoring original system state

Aborting
Reading package lists... Done    
Building dependency tree          
Reading state information... Done

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