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pr1001
Asked: 2011-05-31 03:27:22 +0800 CST

Why won't Ubuntu Server 9.04 won't upgrade to 9.10?

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I have a server running 9.04 and I'd like to upgrade it to 9.10 (on the way to getting to the latest version). However, despite following the nice documentation, I am unable to.

Specifically, sudo do-release-upgrade fails:

Checking for a new ubuntu release
Done Upgrade tool signature
Done Upgrade tool
Done downloading            
extracting 'lucid.tar.gz'
authenticate 'lucid.tar.gz' against 'lucid.tar.gz.gpg' 
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names

Reading cache

Checking package manager

Can not upgrade 

An upgrade from 'jaunty' to 'lucid' is not supported with this tool.

My original /etc/apt/sources.list:

## EOL upgrade sources.list
# Required
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-security main restricted universe multiverse

# Optional
#deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
#deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-proposed main restricted universe multiverse

Changing jaunty to karmic and old-releases to releases gives 404 errors when I run sudo aptitude update. And, sudo do-release-upgrade still tries to upgrade directly to lucid.

ubuntu ubuntu-9.04 upgrade ubuntu-9.10

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Probably too late but....

    Changing jaunty to karmic and old-releases to releases gives 404 errors

    This should be old-releases to archive

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  2. This upgrade will not work at all!
    From the ubuntu-security-announce mailing list (received last week):

    This note is just to confirm that the support period for Ubuntu 9.10
(Karmic Koala) formally ended on May 1, 2011 and Ubuntu Security Notices
no longer includes information or updated packages for Ubuntu 9.10.

    Hence the 404's.
    "Cruel workaround": replace all "jaunty" 's in /etc/apt/sources.list and /apt/sources.list.d/* with "lucid" and run "aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade"

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  3. I see do-release-upgrade is automatically trying to upgrade to Lucid, which is wrong (maybe a bug, as the docs don't point out this possibility).

    Check /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades. Does it say Prompt=lts? If so, try changing it to Prompt=normal.

    If all fails you can try upgrading the Debian way - by modifying your sources to point to Karmic and doing apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.

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