[Bug 342171] Re: do-release-upgrade fails with "OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied"

[Walter Garcia-Fontes]

I'm closing the bug as it has been solved long ago.

** Changed in: update-manager-core (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Package changed: update-manager-core (Ubuntu) => update-manager
(Ubuntu)

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Title:
  do-release-upgrade fails with "OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied"

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager-core

  I wanted to upgrade directly from 6.06 LTS to 8.04 LTS, but the do-
  release-upgrade fails with the following error:

  root at server:/tmp# do-release-upgrade
  Checking for a new ubuntu release
  Done Upgrade tool signature
  Done Upgrade tool
  Done downloading            
  extracting 'hardy.tar.gz'
  authenticate 'hardy.tar.gz' against 'hardy.tar.gz.gpg' 
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade", line 56, in ?
      fetcher.run()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/UpdateManagerCore/DistUpgradeFetcherCore.py", line 183, in run
      self.runDistUpgrader()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/UpdateManagerCore/DistUpgradeFetcherCore.py", line 148, in runDistUpgrader
      os.execv(self.script,args)
  OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

  root at server:/tmp# lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS
  Release:	6.06

  root at server:/tmp# apt-cache policy update-manager-core
  update-manager-core:
    Installed: 0.56~dapper5
    Candidate: 0.56~dapper5
    Version table:
   *** 0.56~dapper5 0
          500 http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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