[Bug 1892668] [NEW] do-release-upgrade -d dangerously misleading output

[James Bowery]

Public bug reported:

Executing:

# do-release-upgrade -d

at one point output:

To continue please press [ENTER]

So I pressed ENTER.

I was then greeted with this opaque sentence fragment as the response to
pressing ENTER:

Inhibiting until Ctrl+C is pressed...

Then it just sat there... doing nothing obvious.  Was it downloading the
updates?  What was it inhibiting?  How long was I supposed to ponder
these questions?

Some people confronting this Sphinx, waiting for hours, give up and
press "Ctrl+C" which, in at least one case, left his system trashed.

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

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Title:
  do-release-upgrade -d dangerously misleading output

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

Bug description:
  Executing:

  # do-release-upgrade -d

  at one point output:

  To continue please press [ENTER]

  So I pressed ENTER.

  I was then greeted with this opaque sentence fragment as the response
  to pressing ENTER:

  Inhibiting until Ctrl+C is pressed...

  Then it just sat there... doing nothing obvious.  Was it downloading
  the updates?  What was it inhibiting?  How long was I supposed to
  ponder these questions?

  Some people confronting this Sphinx, waiting for hours, give up and
  press "Ctrl+C" which, in at least one case, left his system trashed.

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