Yep, distribution upgrades will not work when you have to use a proxy. I have http_proxy and ftp_proxy set to "http://web-proxy:8080/", Synaptic, Settings->Network->Proxy set to the same and also /etc/apt/apt.conf has Acquire::http::proxy "http://web-proxy:8080/"; Still same behavior as #34. I also tried the following, waited and pressed Ctrl+C:
$ sudo do-release-upgrade -m desktop Checking for a new ubuntu release ^CTraceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade", line 61, in <module> fetcher.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/UpdateManager/Core/DistUpgradeFetcherCore.py", line 235, in run if not self.fetchDistUpgrader(): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/UpdateManager/Core/DistUpgradeFetcherCore.py", line 203, in fetchDistUpgrader uri = self._expandUri(self.new_dist.upgradeToolSig) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/UpdateManager/Core/DistUpgradeFetcherCore.py", line 178, in _expandUri new_uri = self.mirror_from_sources_list(uri, self.DEFAULT_MIRROR) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/UpdateManager/Core/DistUpgradeFetcherCore.py", line 164, in mirror_from_sources_list if url_downloadable(mirror_uri, self._debug): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/UpdateManager/Core/utils.py", line 105, in url_downloadable c.request("HEAD", path) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 898, in request self._send_request(method, url, body, headers) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 935, in _send_request self.endheaders() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 892, in endheaders self._send_output() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 764, in _send_output self.send(msg) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 723, in send self.connect() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 704, in connect self.timeout) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/socket.py", line 507, in create_connection sock.connect(sa) File "<string>", line 1, in connect KeyboardInterrupt $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 9.10 Release: 9.10 Codename: karmic $ uname -a Linux ubuntu 2.6.31-21-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 24 07:28:56 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux -- get proxy config from gnome configuration https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/13661 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs