Robb, you did not describe exactly what happened when you attempted to upgrade. I'm having trouble upgrading a 8.10 server, and the root cause of both our problems may be that the UpgradeTool of http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release points to non-existing URLs for both 8.10 and 6.06.
When I run "sudo do-release-upgrade" I get the following output: Checking for a new ubuntu release Failed Upgrade tool signature Failed Upgrade tool Done downloading extracting 'jaunty.tar.gz' Failed to extract Extracting the upgrade failed. There may be a problem with the network or with the server. Not very helpful. Using strace I'm able to retrive the real error messages: sudo strace -f -s 70000 -o /tmp/release.strace do-release-upgrade Afterwards, in the /tmp/release.strace file I can see that it fetches the meta-release file and stores it in /var/lib/update-manager/meta-release. It seems to try to use the UpgradeTool URL from that file to retrieve jaunty.tar.gz. I see this error message: 28281 <... read resumed> "400 URI Failure\nURI: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty-proposed/main/dist- upgrader-all/0.111.8/jaunty.tar.gz\nMessage: 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.45 80]\nFailReason: HttpError404\n\n", 64000) = 192 If I change the URI of /etc/update-manager/meta-release from http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release to http://www.lysator.liu.se/~ceder/tmp/meta-old (where I have blindly replaced all "archive" with "old-releases") things work slightly better. The jaunty.tar.gz file is accepted. But after a while I get these messages: Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/universe Packages Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/multiverse Packages Done downloading Reading package lists: Done Reading state information: Done Reading state information: Done Reading state information: Done Updating repository information No valid mirror found While scanning your repository information no mirror entry for the upgrade was found.This can happen if you run a internal mirror or if the mirror information is out of date. Do you want to rewrite your 'sources.list' file anyway? If you choose 'Yes' here it will update all 'intrepid' to 'jaunty' entries. If you select 'no' the update will cancel. Continue [yN] If I restore the /etc/update-manager/meta-release file and run this echo 91.189.88.140 archive.ubuntu.com | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts things work even better. The IP address actually belongs to old-releases.ubuntu.com. Now I get all the way to Do you want to start the upgrade? 1 package is going to be removed. 57 new packages are going to be installed. 828 packages are going to be upgraded. You have to download a total of 430M. This download will take about 7 minutes with your connection. Fetching and installing the upgrade can take several hours. Once the download has finished, the process cannot be cancelled. Continue [yN] Details [d] ...and here I bail out because I cannot actually update the server until the service window on 2011-08-15. Sorry to spam if this was totally irrelevant to the original problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/822910 Title: 6.06 upgrade fails due to bad repo? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/822910/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
