Verifying/fixing a failed (?) upgrade to 13.04

[Adam Funk]

On 2013-05-14, Tom H wrote:

> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:28 AM, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yesterday I upgraded a machine from 12.10 to 13.04 using the GUI from
>> the update-manager.  Something mysteriously died towards the end (I
>> got some /var/crash/_whatever) & I can't figure out how to tell if the
>> upgrade worked or not.  When I log into the machine it shows this:
>>
>> New release '13.04' available.
>> Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.
>>
>> But do-release upgrade does nothing:
>>
>> /home/adam $ sudo do-release-upgrade
>> [sudo] password for adam:
>> Checking for a new Ubuntu release
>> No new release found
>>
>> and aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade do nothing either.  I've
>> checked that all the entries in /etc/apt/sources.list and
>> sources.d/*.list have "raring".
>>
>> How do I verify that my system is upgraded?
>> If it is, how do I fix the "New release" message?
>
> How about "aptitude full-upgrade"?
>
> But before that check the logs; "/var/log/dpkg*", "/var/log/apt/*",
> "/var/log/dist-upgrade/*".


Thanks to everyone for the advice.  I can't find anything wrong, & the
machine is now successfully handling further package upgrades within
13.04, so I'm forced to conclude it must've worked.