Heya Paul,
It sounds like there were some upgrades that hadn’t been processed yet.
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo dist-upgrade -y
At the run those command you should be able to do the
sudo do-release-upgrade
Best of luck to you!
Respectfully,
Joshua T. Sieber
> On Jan 16, 2019, at 7:43 AM, <sci...@vex.net> <sci...@vex.net> wrote:
>
> I have tried the command “sudo do-release-upgrade", and it wanted me to do an
> upgrade first. I did one through the software updater. After an initial
> upgrade, it reported “all packages are up to date.”
>
> Do-release-upgrade still wanted me to update my packages first. With the
> package updater, I got the names of three packages that were “blocked from
> update”.
>
> On the command line, this is what I got when I tried to remove the “blocked”
> packages:
>
> Script started on Wed 16 Jan 2019 07:00:48 AM EST
> paul@rivendell: ~paul rivendell~ $ sudo do-release-upgrade
> [sudo] password for paul:
> Checking for a new Ubuntu release
> Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.
> paul@rivendell: ~paul rivendell~ $ apt-get remove python-laditools-1.1..
> E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13:
> Permission denied)
> E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend),
> are you root?
> paul@rivendell: ~paul rivendell~ $ apt-get remove python-laditools-1.1.0-2
> Reading package lists... 0%
> Reading package lists... 100%
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... 0%
> Building dependency tree... 0%
> Building dependency tree... 50%
> Building dependency tree... 50%
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... 0%
> Reading state information... 0%
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package python-laditools-1.1.0-2
> E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'python-laditools-1.1.0-2'
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'python-laditools-1.1.0-2'
> paul@rivendell: ~paul rivendell~ $ apt remove python-oauthlib-1.0.3-1
> Reading package lists... 0%
> Reading package lists... 100%
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... 0%
> Building dependency tree... 0%
> Building dependency tree... 50%
> Building dependency tree... 50%
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... 0%
> Reading state information... 0%
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package python-oauthlib-1.0.3-1
> E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'python-oauthlib-1.0.3-1
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'python-oauthlib-1.0.3-1
> paul@rivendell: ~paul rivendell~ $ sudo apt remove
> python-openssl-0.15.1-2ubuntu0.2
> Reading package lists... 0%
> Reading package lists... 100%
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... 0%
> Building dependency tree... 0%
> Building dependency tree... 50%
> Building dependency tree... 50%
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... 0%
> Reading state information... 0%
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package python-openssl-0.15.1-2ubuntu0.2
> E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'python-openssl-0.15.1-2ubuntu0.2
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'python-openssl-0.15.1-2ubuntu0.2
> paul@rivendell: ~paul rivendell~ $ exit
>
> Script done on Wed 16 Jan 2019 07:06:30 AM EST
>
> This is all I have. Let me know if this helps.
>
> Paul
>
> From: ubuntu-studio-users <ubuntu-studio-users-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com> On
> Behalf Of Ross Gammon
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2019 2:41 PM
> To: ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Offer to upgrade failed
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> There are some instructions for upgrading from 16.04 & 17.10 to 18.04 here
> (which seems to be what you have done):
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes#Upgrading_from_Ubuntu_16.04_LTS_or_17.10
>
> As you have hit errors, it might be better to follow the Ubuntu Server update
> instructions and do a "sudo do-release-upgrade" on the command line. Then it
> might be easier to copy and paste any error messages on an email to the list.
>
> There are places you can retrieve the apt logs, but you probably won't need
> to if the error is obvious to us here.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ross
>
> On 14/01/2019 11:58, sci...@vex.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Ubuntu Studio 16.04.xx, and I noticed that I was offered, through
> the “software updater”, an opportunity to upgrade to the next LTS version. I
> cliked the button that said “Update …”, and all the window does is disappear,
> with no further response. I have tried this several times.
>
> I have had what I call minor problems with the software updater in the past,
> where it would say that update has failed for some unknown reason, I
> dutifully click “send report”, but in fact, the system was updated, but for a
> few Python packages which look old, and “blocked” from update.
>
> It appears as if the “minor” problems may be causing update to fail. I cannot
> find any system log that tells me what crashed, although I managed to read
> one of my reports that Software Updater would send, and I remember seeing a
> message that apt had crashed (I recall it was apt and not aptd). I did not
> see information there that gave a reason.
>
> Paul King
>
>
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