12.04 to 14.04 doesnt upgrade

Remember to run a normal “apt-get update && apt-get upgrade” first. Then simply answer yes to the question: <br> <br><pre> <br>While scanning your repository information no mirror entry for the <br>upgrade was found. This can happen if you run an internal mirror or <br>if the mirror information is out of date. <br> <br>Do you want to rewrite your ‘sources.list’ file anyway? If you choose <br>‘Yes’ here it will update all ‘precise’ to ‘trusty’ entries. <br>If you select ‘No’ the upgrade will cancel. <br> <br>Continue [yN] <br></pre> <br> <br>The do-release-upgrade tool checks the list of official Ubuntu mirrors before running an upgrade. DigitalOcean’s mirror is an internal mirror so it is normal to see this prompt. I’ve upgraded a number of droplet from 12.04 to 14.04 with no issue. <br> <br>Looking at the extra information that you provided on the bug report, it looks like you have a virtualmin repository in you sources.list. That seems to be the real source of the problem where ubuntu-minimal can not be found. <br> <br>I just spun up two 12.04 droplets. One I immediately upgraded to 14.04. There were no issues at all. The next I installed virtualmin on. When I tried to upgrade it, I hit the same problem you described. I’d suggest opening a bug/support ticket with virtualmin. <br> <br>

Heres answer https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1310816 <br> <br>Your /etc/apt/sources.list file only has entries for the main component of the archive with http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu/ which is not an official mirror of Ubuntu. Subsequently, the upgrade was unable to find the essential package ubuntu-minimal. You’ll need to either choose a different mirror or only use mirrors.digitalocean.com entries in your sources.list file and then respond Yes to the question about using an unofficial mirror and rewriting sources.list. <br> <br>YOu should make yourself as official mirror. No? Or mirror update requirements to meet. <br>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors#Country_mirror_requirements

Hello, long dead thread but I have been upgrading a bunch of old Ubuntu VM’s up the chain: 10.04 to 12.04 and onto 14.04 etc… I found a few answers and will compile them here.

I saw the error mentioned in this thread and it was tied to 3rd party packages. The fix was:

Create or edit an existing file named unauth.cfg. It should be located in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades.d/

In that file put this, it can be the only thing in it.

[Distro] AllowUnauthenticated=yes

No service restart is needed, just do your upgrade commands again.

Next was old releases that had been retired (like 10.04, btw you cannot upgrade to 12.04 from Maverick, it isn’t supported). The fix for this is to edit the sources.list file and replace all repositories (country_code.archive.ubuntu.com, archive.ubuntu.com, security.ubuntu.com) with old-releases. Verify the ftp site is still valid before using but the command should look like this:

sudo sed -i -re ‘s/([a-z]{2}.)?us.archive.ubuntu.com|security.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g’ /etc/apt/sources.list

You can see above I was using us.archive… but it could be ca.archive…, cn.archive… or just archive.ubuntu.com etc… You can examine the file if you don’t know what repository you use by looking at:

/etc/apt/sources.list

It doesn’t hurt anything to run the command multiple times as it only changes what is specified or doesn’t do anything if they aren’t found.

This fix also lead to another issue, out of data GPG keys. The fix for this is:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 40976EAF437D05B5

Where the hex # is the one in the error message as it won’t always be 40976EAF437D05B5 that I received and used in the example above. Though this key is quite common.

Finally I ran into an issue I haven’t solved but from what I read it is tied to either a kernel version problem or a grub problem. On reboot after upgrading to trusty the bootloader hangs with a blinking cursor and or a colored box. Suggestions like apt-get clean, editing grub with acpi=force did not work for me. People have claimed success by using shift to get into the grub loader interface and choosing and older kernel. I cannot get into it on the VM’s so cannot verify.

Hi,

I am experiencing the exact same problem…does anyone know a solution?

Thanks

So it looks that problem is bad mirror of DigitalOcean <br> <br>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1310816 <br> <br>

So will it work for this 2nd server?

Heres maybe this info needs to be in mirrors <br>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Rsyncmirror

Hmmm did another image copy and update test. <br>Not working. <br> <br> <br>login as: root <br>root@188.226.178.13’s password: <br>Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.8.0-29-generic x86_64) <br> <br> * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ <br> <br> System information as of Mon Apr 21 18:59:48 EDT 2014 <br> <br> System load: 0.25 Processes: 107 <br> Usage of /: 16.8% of 19.56GB Users logged in: 0 <br> Memory usage: 47% IP address for eth0: 188.226.178.13 <br> Swap usage: 0% <br> <br> Graph this data and manage this system at: <br> https://landscape.canonical.com/ <br> <br>0 packages can be updated. <br>0 updates are security updates. <br> <br>*** System restart required *** <br>No mail. <br>Last login: Mon Apr 21 18:58:06 2014 from 94.30.237.154 <br>root@perfectall:~# sudo update <br>sudo: update: command not found <br>root@perfectall:~# sudo apt-get update <br>Hit http://mirrors.digitalocean.com precise Release.gpg <br>Hit http://mirrors.digitalocean.com precise-updates 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http://mirrors.digitalocean.com precise-security/main Translation-en <br>Hit http://mirrors.digitalocean.com precise-security/multiverse Translation-en <br>Hit http://mirrors.digitalocean.com precise-security/restricted Translation-en <br>Hit http://mirrors.digitalocean.com precise-security/universe Translation-en <br>Hit http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-universal Release <br>Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise Release.gpg <br>Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates Release.gpg <br>Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise Release <br>Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates Release <br>Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise/universe amd64 Packages <br>Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise/universe i386 Packages <br>Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise/universe TranslationIndex <br>Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/universe amd64 Packages <br>Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/universe i386 Packages <br>Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/universe TranslationIndex <br>Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise/universe Translation-en <br>Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/universe Translation-en <br>Hit http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-precise/main amd64 Packages <br>Hit http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-precise/main i386 Packages <br>Ign http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-precise/main TranslationIndex <br>Hit http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-universal/main amd64 Packages <br>Hit http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-universal/main i386 Packages <br>Ign http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-universal/main TranslationIndex <br>Ign http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-precise/main Translation-en_US <br>Ign http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-precise/main Translation-en <br>Ign http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-universal/main Translation-en_US <br>Ign http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-universal/main Translation-en <br>Reading package lists… Done <br>root@perfectall:~# sudo apt-get upgrade <br>Reading package lists… Done <br>Building dependency tree <br>Reading state information… Done <br>0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. <br>root@perfectall:~# sudo apt-get dist-upgrade <br>Reading package lists… Done <br>Building dependency tree <br>Reading state information… Done <br>Calculating upgrade… Done <br>0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. <br>root@perfectall:~# sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get install update-manager-core^C <br>root@perfectall:~# sudo apt-get dist-upgrade <br>Reading package lists… Done <br>Building dependency tree <br>Reading state information… Done <br>Calculating upgrade… Done <br>0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. <br>root@perfectall:~# sudo apt-get install update-manager-core <br>Reading package lists… Done <br>Building dependency tree <br>Reading state information… Done <br>update-manager-core is already the newest version. <br>0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. <br>root@perfectall:~# sudo do-release-upgrade -d <br>Checking for a new Ubuntu release <br>Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [198 B] <br>Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,148 kB] <br>Fetched 1,148 kB in 0s (0 B/s) <br>authenticate ‘trusty.tar.gz’ against ‘trusty.tar.gz.gpg’ <br>extracting ‘trusty.tar.gz’ <br>Updating repository information <br> <br>Third party sources disabled <br> <br>Some third party entries in your sources.list were disabled. You can <br>re-enable them after the upgrade with the ‘software-properties’ tool <br>or your package manager. <br> <br>To continue please press [ENTER] <br> <br>Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security Release.gpg [933 B] <br>Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security Release [58.5 kB] <br>Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe amd64 Packages [14 B] <br>Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe i386 Packages [14 B] <br>Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe TranslationIndex [70 B] <br>Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe Translation-en [14 B] <br>Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release.gpg [933 B] <br>Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates Release.gpg [933 B] <br>Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release [58.5 kB] <br>Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates Release [58.5 kB] <br>Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe amd64 Packages [5,859 kB] <br>Get:12 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe i386 Packages [5,866 kB] <br>Get:13 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe TranslationIndex [3,129 B] <br>Get:14 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/universe amd64 Packages [1,602 B] <br>Get:15 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/universe i386 Packages [1,601 B] <br>Get:16 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/universe TranslationIndex [71 B] <br>Get:17 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe Translation-en [4,088 kB] <br>Get:18 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/universe Translation-en [720 B] <br>Fetched 16.0 MB in 6s (1,916 kB/s) <br> <br>Checking package manager <br>Reading package lists… Done <br>Building dependency tree <br>Reading state information… Done <br>Building data structures… Done <br> <br>Invalid package information <br> <br>After updating your package information, the essential package <br>‘ubuntu-minimal’ could not be located. This may be because you have <br>no official mirrors listed in your software sources, or because of <br>excessive load on the mirror you are using. See /etc/apt/sources.list <br>for the current list of configured software sources. <br>In the case of an overloaded mirror, you may want to try the upgrade <br>again later. <br> <br> <br>Restoring original system state <br> <br>Aborting <br> g package lists… 4% <br>*** Collecting problem information <br> <br>The collected information can be sent to the developers to improve the <br>application. This might take a few minutes. <br>Reading package lists… Done <br>Building dependency tree <br>Reading state information… Done <br>Building data structures… Done <br>=== Command terminated with exit status 1 (Mon Apr 21 19:02:21 2014) === <br> <br>

Yep still not do-release-upgrade -d BUT untill i do a update && dist-upgrade && upgrade <br>THEN now just it started working <br>do-release-upgrade -d <br>

This seems like it was probably a temporary problem with the mirror being out of date. I’d just try update again latter. If it continues, let us know.