[Bug 1223894] Re: Segfault trying to upgrade to saucy from raring

[Brian Murray]

Looking at the function it only extracts the tar file, see
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-release-
upgrader/trunk/view/head:/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeFetcherCore.py#L133

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Title:
  Segfault trying to upgrade to saucy from raring

Status in “ubuntu-release-upgrader” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When I attempt to upgrade to saucy, update-manager crashes around extracting the tarball:
  $ sudo update-manager -d
  [sudo] password for abentley: 
  Checking for a new Ubuntu release
  authenticate 'saucy.tar.gz' against 'saucy.tar.gz.gpg' 
  extracting 'saucy.tar.gz'
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 13.04
  Release:	13.04
  $ apt-cache policy update-manager
  update-manager:
    Installed: 1:0.186.2
    Candidate: 1:0.186.2
    Version table:
   *** 1:0.186.2 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:0.186 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages

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