[Bug 1899272] Re: upgrade to 20.10 beta from 20.04 fails immediate configuration

[Borislav Ivanov]

That worked for me! Thank you, terry b (tbohaning-gmail)!

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Title:
  upgrade to 20.10 beta from 20.04 fails immediate configuration

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

Bug description:
  This problem shows up when using any update method (update-manager -d,
  do-release-upgrade -d). The captured data shows an immediate-configure
  error.

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  Error in function: install

  apt_pkg.Error: E:Could not configure 'libc6:amd64'. , E:Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libnss-nis:amd64'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
  Error in sys.excepthook:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 477, in add_to_existing
      self.write(f)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 430, in write
      block = f.read(1048576)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.8/codecs.py", line 322, in decode
      (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byte

  Original exception was:
  apt_pkg.Error: E:Could not configure 'libc6:amd64'. , E:Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libnss-nis:amd64'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
  Error in function: install

  apt_pkg.Error: E:Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libffi8ubuntu1:amd64'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
  Error in sys.excepthook:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 477, in add_to_existing
      self.write(f)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 430, in write
      block = f.read(1048576)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.8/codecs.py", line 322, in decode
      (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byte

  Original exception was:
  apt_pkg.Error: E:Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libffi8ubuntu1:amd64'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)

  Could not install the upgrades

  The upgrade has aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state. A 
  recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a). 

  
  Upgrade infeasible 

  The upgrade could not be completed, there were errors during the 
  upgrade process. 

  
  Restoring original system state

  Aborting
  Reading package lists... Done    
  Building dependency tree          
  Reading state information... Done

  ------------------------------------------------------------------
  I've deleted the cache of new packages and rerun the download to confirm that I didn't have a bad package download.

  ubuntu-release-upgrader-core/focal-updates,focal-updates,now 1:20.04.25 all [installed]
    manage release upgrades

  ubuntu-release-upgrader-gtk/focal-updates,focal-updates,now 1:20.04.25 all [installed,automatic]
    manage release upgrades

  ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt/focal-updates,focal-updates,now 1:20.04.25 all [installed]
    manage release upgrades

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  root at wizard:/var/lib# lsb_release -rd
  Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
  Release:        20.04

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:20.04.25
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-48.52-generic 5.4.60
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-48-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.9
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  Date: Sat Oct 10 10:17:59 2020
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-03-11 (1308 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Alpha amd64 (20170222)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-10-10 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
   
  mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2020-04-02T08:44:51.029022

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