I experienced the same problem, I think it has been invoked by not first
updating + upgrading + dist-upgrading to the latest version of 14.04 (.3
at the time of writing) before running do-release-upgrade
Besides resetting the /etc/apt/sources.list file to trusty, as suggested
earlier, pinning to
[Expired for ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) because there has been no
activity for 60 days.]
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Status: Incomplete = Expired
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Try running the release upgrade this way:
DEBUG_UPDATE_MANAGER=1 do-release-upgrade
and then include any information presented to the screen.
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root@spicecinema:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release:14.04
Codename: trusty
root@spicecinema:~# cat /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log
2015-05-08 20:44:54,088 INFO Using config files '['./DistUpgrade.cfg']'
I rebooted 5 times. But nothing changes.
lsb_release remains the same.
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Title:
upgrade failed from 14.04.1 to 14.10
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It looks like the upgrade succeeded and you just haven't rebooted.
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Title:
upgrade failed from 14.04.1 to 14.10
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It looks like your sources.list file already has utopic entries in it.
Please switch them back to trusty and try the upgrade again.
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.
deb http://ro.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic main
I changed the source.list back to trusty
and then did 'do-release-upgrade'
nothing downloaded
but source.list changed after restart to utopic
and the lsb_release remained 14.04.1
Checking package manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state
And after every restart..
Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.16.0-37-generic x86_64)
* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
System information as of Sat May 9 01:01:51 EEST 2015
System load: 0.11Processes: 199
Usage of /: 73.8% of 109.41GB