[Bug 1768748] Re: 17.10 to 18.04 upgrade: 'upgrade now' has no effect

[Brian Murray]

I was able to verify this in bionic with update-notifier version 3.192.1
from -proposed by modifying /etc/update-manager/meta-release to point at
server with cosmic in a meta-release-development file and modifying
check-new-release-gtk to have devel-release as a default of true. This
all was necessary because cosmic doesn't have an animal yet so the meta-
release file has not been updated and a new ubuntu-release-upgrader has
not been uploaded to cosmic.

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Title:
  17.10 to 18.04 upgrade: 'upgrade now' has no effect

Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in update-notifier source package in Artful:
  Fix Released
Status in update-notifier source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Test Case:
  1. Install 17.10 and all the updates available
  2. Reboot
  3. Wait until the upgrade notification to 18.04 shows up
  4. Press on 'Upgrade now'

  To force the upgrade dialog to appear a second time you will need to
  use dconf-editor to reset com.ubuntu.update-notifier.release-check-
  time to 0 and then reboot.

  Expected behaviour
  The upgrade process starts

  Actual result
  The update notifier dialog is closed and nothing happens. This is reproducible with the the Wayland and X sessions.

  It works fine if update-notifier is executed manually with:
  $ update-notifier --force-release-check

  The following messages are logged in the journal:
  mai 03 09:04:23 ubuntu gnome-software[1600]: running get-distro-updates with refine-flags=require-setup-action with timeout=60 on plugin=appstream took 26ms
  mai 03 09:04:26 ubuntu PackageKit[1073]: get-updates transaction /3_acacceea from uid 1000 finished with success after 2634ms
  mai 03 09:04:26 ubuntu gnome-software[1600]: running refresh with timeout=60 with cache age=86400 on plugin=steam took 2743ms
  mai 03 09:04:26 ubuntu gnome-software[1600]: running get-updates with refine-flags=require-update-details,require-update-severity with timeout=60 on plugin=systemd-updates took 1ms
  mai 03 09:04:26 ubuntu update-notifier.desktop[1799]: localuser:root being added to access control list
  mai 03 09:04:26 ubuntu update-notifier.desktop[1799]: Refusing to render service to dead parents.

  ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
  Package: update-notifier 3.186.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-39.44-generic 4.13.16
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-39-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.8
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu May  3 09:06:03 2018
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-02 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20180105.1)SourcePackage: update-notifier
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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