Public bug reported: upgrade performed with do-release-upgrade fails to find a solution and restores the previous system state while running in "screen". The failure occurs whether the upgrade is launched from gnome-terminal in the GUI or at the console, after the following messages:
...[various messages looking OK]... Calculating the changes Calculating the changes Do you want to start the upgrade? 24 installed packages are no longer supported by Canonical. You can still get support from the community. 267 packages are going to be removed. 746 new packages are going to be installed. 3313 packages are going to be upgraded. Fetching and installing the upgrade can take several hours. Once the download has finished, the process cannot be canceled. Continue [yN] Details [d]y Lock screen disabled Your lock screen has been disabled and will remain disabled until you reboot. To continue please press [ENTER] Inhibiting until Ctrl+C is pressed... Fetching Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s) Upgrading Inhibiting until Ctrl+C is pressed... Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s) Upgrading Inhibiting until Ctrl+C is pressed... Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating the changes Calculating the changes Could not calculate the upgrade An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade. This can be caused by: * Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu * Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu * Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the command 'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a terminal. Restoring original system state Aborting Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:16.04.25 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-33.36~16.04.1-generic 4.15.18 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-33-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18 Architecture: amd64 CrashDB: ubuntu CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Tue Aug 28 23:49:25 2018 PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2018-08-28 (0 days ago) VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog: Log started: 2018-08-28 23:48:28 Log ended: 2018-08-28 23:48:32 Log started: 2018-08-28 23:48:36 Log ended: 2018-08-28 23:48:36 ** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade third-party-packages xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1789507 Title: bionic upgrader fails quickly after downloads To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1789507/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs