[Bug 1573022] Re: Upgrade Failure

[Nigel Love]

UPDATE.

I get exactly the same failure when attempting to upgrade from
14.04.04LTS to 15.10

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Title:
  Upgrade Failure

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

Bug description:
  14.04 to 16.04 update failed:

  CURRENT OS:

  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  admin at ubuntu_14:~$ apt-cache policy pkgname
  N: Unable to locate package pkgname


  TERMINAL OUTPUT TO START UPGRADE:

  admin at ubuntu_14:~$ sudo update-manager -d
  [sudo] password for admin: 
  WARNING:root:estimate_kernel_size_in_boot() returned '0'?
  Checking for a new Ubuntu release
  authenticate 'xenial.tar.gz' against 'xenial.tar.gz.gpg' 
  extracting 'xenial.tar.gz'
  admin at ubuntu_14:~$ 

  
  ERROR MESSAGE ON FAILURE:

  Could not determine 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.


  TERMINAL OUTPUT DURING BUG REPORT:

  admin at ubuntu_14:~$ ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core
  admin at ubuntu_14:~$ [20257:20291:0421/134455:ERROR:device_id_linux.cc(86)] Could not find appropriate disk uuid.
  [20257:20291:0421/134455:ERROR:device_id_linux.cc(89)]   DeviceID=loop0, uuid=fa202bd3-803a-4583-ac34-50a4b8f59b41
  [0421/124457:WARNING:ipc_message_attachment_set.cc(57)] MessageAttachmentSet destroyed with unconsumed descriptors: 0/1
  [1,3706309120:12:44:57.578202] Native Client module will be loaded at base address 0x000018fc00000000

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.8
  Uname: Linux 3.12.6 x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: vfio_pci vfio vringh virtio_scsi virtio_pci virtio_mmio virtio_console virtio_balloon virtio_rng virtio_blk virtio_net virtio_ring virtio vhost_net vhost macvtap macvlan kvm_intel kvm xt_mark iptable_mangle ppp_deflate tun bsd_comp ppp_mppe ppp_async ppp_generic crc_ccitt slhc iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi iscsi_target_mod target_core_file target_core_iblock target_core_mod fbdisk btusb bluetooth ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat iptable_filter nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_conntrack bonding bridge stp ipv6 8021q uvcvideo videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops videobuf2_core snd_usb_caiaq snd_usb_audio snd_usbmidi_lib snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi fnotify udf isofs iTCO_wdt rtcmod cryptodev ufsd jnl pl2303 usbserial intel_ips drbd flashcache dm_thin_pool dm_bio_prison dm_persistent_data dm_bufio hal_netlink coretemp igb mpt2sas scsi_transport_sas raid_class usb_storage xhci_hcd usblp uhci_hcd ehci_pci ehci_hcd
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.20
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Apr 21 13:41:51 2016
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2016-04-21 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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