[ubuntu-studio-users] Offer to upgrade failed

Wed Jan 16 12:43:48 UTC 2019

I have tried the command “sudo do-release-upgrade", and it wanted me to do an upgrade first. I did one through the software updater. After an initial upgrade, it reported “all packages are up to date.”

Do-release-upgrade still wanted me to update my packages first. With the package updater, I got the names of three packages that were “blocked from update”. 

On the command line, this is what I got when I tried to remove the “blocked” packages:

Script started on Wed 16 Jan 2019 07:00:48 AM EST

paul at rivendell: ~paul rivendell~ $ sudo do-release-upgrade 

[sudo] password for paul: 

Checking for a new Ubuntu release

Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.

paul at rivendell: ~paul rivendell~ $ apt-get remove python-laditools-1.1..

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)

E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?

paul at rivendell: ~paul rivendell~ $ apt-get remove python-laditools-1.1.0-2

Reading package lists... 0%

Reading package lists... 100%

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... 0%

Building dependency tree... 50%

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... 0%

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package python-laditools-1.1.0-2

E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'python-laditools-1.1.0-2'

E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'python-laditools-1.1.0-2'

paul at rivendell: ~paul rivendell~ $ apt remove python-oauthlib-1.0.3-1

Reading package lists... 0%

Reading package lists... 100%

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... 0%

Building dependency tree... 50%

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... 0%

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package python-oauthlib-1.0.3-1

E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'python-oauthlib-1.0.3-1

E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'python-oauthlib-1.0.3-1

paul at rivendell: ~paul rivendell~ $ sudo apt remove python-openssl-0.15.1-2ubuntu0.2

Reading package lists... 0%

Reading package lists... 100%

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... 0%

Building dependency tree... 50%

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... 0%

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package python-openssl-0.15.1-2ubuntu0.2

E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'python-openssl-0.15.1-2ubuntu0.2

E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'python-openssl-0.15.1-2ubuntu0.2

paul at rivendell: ~paul rivendell~ $ exit

Script done on Wed 16 Jan 2019 07:06:30 AM EST

This is all I have. Let me know if this helps.

Paul

From: ubuntu-studio-users <ubuntu-studio-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com> On Behalf Of Ross Gammon
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2019 2:41 PM
To: ubuntu-studio-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Offer to upgrade failed

Hi Paul,

There are some instructions for upgrading from 16.04 & 17.10 to 18.04 here (which seems to be what you have done):

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes#Upgrading_from_Ubuntu_16.04_LTS_or_17.10

As you have hit errors, it might be better to follow the Ubuntu Server update instructions and do a "sudo do-release-upgrade" on the command line. Then it might be easier to copy and paste any error messages on an email to the list.

There are places you can retrieve the apt logs, but you probably won't need to if the error is obvious to us here.

Regards,

Ross

On 14/01/2019 11:58, sciguy at vex.net <mailto:sciguy at vex.net>  wrote:

Hi,

I am using Ubuntu Studio 16.04.xx, and I noticed that I was offered, through the “software updater”, an opportunity to upgrade to the next LTS version. I cliked the button that said “Update …”, and all the window does is disappear, with no further response. I have tried this several times.

I have had what I call minor problems with the software updater in the past, where it would say that update has failed for some unknown reason, I dutifully click “send report”, but in fact, the system was updated, but for a few Python packages which look old, and “blocked” from update.

It appears as if the “minor” problems may be causing update to fail. I cannot find any system log that tells me what crashed, although I managed to read one of my reports that Software Updater would send, and I remember seeing a message that apt had crashed (I recall it was apt and not aptd). I did not see information there that gave a reason.

Paul King

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