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shawty
Asked: 2011-09-22 05:32:41 +0800 CST

Upgrade ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04

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I'm stuck with a predicament upgrading from Ubuntu Server 9.10 to 10.4

This is a command line only environment. I'm Re-asking as the post as Placed on ( Upgrade ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 ) has been deleted.

I'm trying to do a

"do-release-upgrade" from 9.10 to 10.4 Ubuntu server, from the command line.

I've been wrestling with this now for 2 days, I think I've found every possible page related to it and tried all the suggestions (Mostly to do with altering the sources.list that apt-get uses) and still I just can't make the upgrade continue.

All I get is the following:

    The upgrade is now aborted. Please check your Internet connection or
    installation media and try again. All files downloaded so far are
    kept.

    Failed to fetch
    http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gmime2.2/libgmime-2.0-2a_2.2.22-5_i386.deb
    404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch
    http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/l/lua50/liblua50_5.0.3-4_i386.deb
    404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch
    http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/l/lua50/liblualib50_5.0.3-4_i386.deb
    404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch
    http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.10.dfsg.1-3ubuntu2.10.04.1_i386.deb
    404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch
    http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/policykit/libpolkit2_0.9-4ubuntu2_i386.deb
    404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch
    http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/l/lm-sensors/libsensors3_2.10.8-2_i386.deb
    404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch
    http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/seamonkey/seamonkey-        browser_2.0.11+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1_i386.deb
    404 Not Found



    Restoring original system state

    Aborting
    Reading package lists: Donem karmic/partner Packages: 97  ackages: 97  tricted Packages: 04
    Reading state information: Done
    Reading state information: Done

The annoying part is that I DON'T have ANY of the listed packages either installed or listed as dependencies. The machine I'm upgrading is a simple Web/Mail & DNS server. No Desktop, no browsers, no monitoring or anything.

and EVERY other package that it does want or need to upgrade it finds without a problem, consistently however it's got it into it's system that it needs the above packages when it doesn't and it refuses to allow me to successfully upgrade because of it.

Any ideas?

ubuntu

2 Answers

  1. Check four things

    1. Networking is intact at all times and that you are not behind any 'funny' proxies.
    2. /etc/sources.list and update them, change the mirror. Also remove any unnoficial repos
    3. do-release-upgrade --mode=server
    4. Upgrade problems
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  2. Best Answer

    Ok. I MAY have solved this. For those who are interested, here's how I got round it.

    Firstly , after a bit of searching, I found ALL the packages (Identical versions and MD5's) here : http://es.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/pool/main/

    At first I tried to point sources.list at this repo, but got the "Where disabling 3rd Party sources" message when running.

    so....

    I made a list of everything that the upgrader wanted, and downloaded them to a different server. (All of the upgrades other files had already been downloaded) I disconnected the machine in question from the internet, but left it connected to the lan.

    I then setup an entry in my DNS server to be equal to :

    gb.archive.ubuntu.com

    but pointing at one of my local boxes.

    I created the correct folder structure under apache as shown in the 404's above, then copied the downloaded packages to that location.

    Finally I re-ran "do-release-upgrade" and it found and downloaded what it thought where live packages :-)

    I've now left it running and so far no more error's, the upgrade hasn't finished yet however, so there may be more posts on here documenting other aspects of the upgrade.

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