cannot update from 13.10 to 14.04

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 11:16 +0200, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Clay Weber <clay at claydoh.com> wrote:
> > Have you tried running do-release-upgrade *without* sudo, as one of the
> > answers suggested? Using sudo for this is unnecessary, as the tool will ask
> > for your password when it needs to, to proceed with the upgrade.  This is the
> > method that solved the problem for the user in the askubuntu entry.
> 
> Yes, I've tried doing it directly from root as well as via sudo, and
> nothing changed.

IIUC somebody mentions that you should run it as a _user_, neither with
sudo, nor as root.