[Bug 792348] Re: Could not determine the upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04

Alan Pope alan at popey.com
Fri Jun 3 15:45:40 UTC 2011


2011-06-03 13:58:06,654 ERROR IOError/SystemError in cache.update():
'W:Failed to fetch
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/natty/Release.gpg  Something
wicked happened resolving 'fe80::d685:64ff:fec8:c6bf:8000' (-9 - Address
family for hostname not supported)

Looks like a local DNS / ipv6 issue.

Maybe you want to disable ipv6 in /etc/sysctl.conf by adding:-

#disable ipv6
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1

Then reboot, and try the upgrade again.

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Title:
  Could not determine the upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04

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

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  Tried to upgrade from Kubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 after what seemed like
  ages I was told that it "Could not determine the upgrade".




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