I am finally back at square one: 10.04 LTS. I have attached the output of 'apt-show-versions' just in case something in this is important in this two phase update. The only non-default environment setting is the locale: LANG=C. I will start by doing the upgrade to 12.04 LTS and them make backups of the intermediate step so that (assuming it fails as before) I can recover to the intermediate step in less time. The upgrades will be done over ssh as before and I will try to capture any unexpected behaviour for analysis. This make take some time as I have other work to do so will have to fit the slow interactive update parts in with other things.
** Attachment added: "apt-show-versions for LTS 10.04 starting point" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1505021/+attachment/4492648/+files/installed-LTS-10.04.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1505021 Title: do-release-ubgrade from 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1505021/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs