[Bug 1800588] [NEW] upgrade to 18.10 fails saying something like "update size cannot be calculated"

[Ali Mürteza Yeşil]

Public bug reported:

All softwares are up-to-date when updated with `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade`.
Update tool also says that system is up to date, but still currently running OS version shows 18.04.1
in second step of the ubuntu-release-upgrader problem occurs.

added PPAs are:
Steam (game platform)
MEGA Cloud (Cloud sync client)
some other PPAs for edge version of AMDGPU.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.27
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-38.41-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.4
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: communitheme:ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 30 11:25:29 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-11 (48 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-10-30 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
 
mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2018-09-11T23:04:51.724920

** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic dist-upgrade

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Title:
  upgrade to 18.10 fails saying something like "update size cannot be
  calculated"

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

Bug description:
  All softwares are up-to-date when updated with `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade`.
  Update tool also says that system is up to date, but still currently running OS version shows 18.04.1
  in second step of the ubuntu-release-upgrader problem occurs.

  added PPAs are:
  Steam (game platform)
  MEGA Cloud (Cloud sync client)
  some other PPAs for edge version of AMDGPU.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.27
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-38.41-generic 4.15.18
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-38-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.4
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: communitheme:ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Tue Oct 30 11:25:29 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-11 (48 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-10-30 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
   
  mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2018-09-11T23:04:51.724920

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