Public bug reported: Do-release-upgrade cannot be started if there are held back packages. This make any sense to users:
$ sudo apt-get update Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing InRelease Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing-updates InRelease Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing-security InRelease Hit:4 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing-backports InRelease Reading package lists... Done $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: qemu-user qemu-user-binfmt 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. $ do-release-upgrade -d Checking for a new Ubuntu release Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 25.10 Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:25.10.8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.17.0-7.7-generic 6.17.2 Uname: Linux 6.17.0-7-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.33.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CrashDB: ubuntu CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Sun Jan 4 01:43:05 2026 InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-07-01 (1648 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Release amd64 (20210420) PackageArchitecture: all RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks. SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to questing on 2025-05-15 (233 days ago) VarLogDistupgradeXorgFixuplog: INFO:root:/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade running INFO:root:No xorg.conf, exiting ** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade questing wayland-session -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2137404 Title: do-release-upgrader should ignore held back packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/2137404/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
