Public bug reported: Trying to get to 18.04 Stripped out all non-standard PPA references and reran update/upgrade, completed ok. But do-release-upgrade failed with with
(appstreamcli:8886): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strchug: assertion 'string != NULL' failed (appstreamcli:8886): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strchomp: assertion 'string != NULL' failed (appstreamcli:8886): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strchug: assertion 'string != NULL' failed (appstreamcli:8886): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strchomp: assertion 'string != NULL' failed (appstreamcli:8886): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strchug: assertion 'string != NULL' failed (appstreamcli:8886): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strchomp: assertion 'string != NULL' failed AppStream cache update completed, but some metadata was ignored due to errors. Checking package manager 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. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:16.04.26 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-146.172-generic 4.4.177 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-146-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18 Architecture: amd64 CrashDB: ubuntu Date: Thu Apr 11 00:08:23 2019 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-07-06 (2469 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2019-04-11 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2019-04-10T22:40:31.357962 ** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1824276 Title: releaser-upgrade failure 16.04.6LTS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1824276/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs