Public bug reported: I just run the do-release-upgrade like following:
root@ns3:/etc# do-release-upgrade proxy '\' looks invalid Checking for a new Ubuntu release Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [198 B] Get:2 Upgrade tool [1198 kB] Fetched 1198 kB in 0s (0 B/s) authenticate 'quantal.tar.gz' against 'quantal.tar.gz.gpg' extracting 'quantal.tar.gz' Reading cache Checking package manager Continue running under SSH? This session appears to be running under ssh. It is not recommended to perform a upgrade over ssh currently because in case of failure it is harder to recover. If you continue, an additional ssh daemon will be started at port '1022'. Do you want to continue? Continue [yN] y A fatal error occurred Please report this as a bug and include the files /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log and /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log in your report. The upgrade has aborted. Your original sources.list was saved in /etc/apt/sources.list.distUpgrade. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/update-manager-04gFJk/quantal", line 10, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/tmp/update-manager-04gFJk/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py", line 240, in main if app.run(): File "/tmp/update-manager-04gFJk/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1764, in run return self.fullUpgrade() File "/tmp/update-manager-04gFJk/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1616, in fullUpgrade if not self.prepare(): File "/tmp/update-manager-04gFJk/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 429, in prepare self._sshMagic() File "/tmp/update-manager-04gFJk/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 299, in _sshMagic "Do you want to continue?") % port) File "/tmp/update-manager-04gFJk/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewText.py", line 216, in askYesNoQuestion res = sys.stdin.readline().decode(ENCODING, "backslashreplace") TypeError: decode() argument 1 must be string, not None === Command detached from window (Thu May 9 13:34:06 2013) === === Command terminated with exit status 1 (Thu May 9 13:34:06 2013) === ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: update-manager (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-41.66-generic 3.2.42 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-41-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu May 9 13:44:09 2013 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120424.1) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=C SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: update-manager Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2013-05-09 (0 days ago) ** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1178226 Title: Upgrade to quantal won't start To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1178226/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs