[Bug 1388639] Re: do-release-upgrade to 14.10 fails

[Kevin Cole]

Well... I wish I'd known where to look before removing everything from
my system.  Submitting this bug report allowed me to see
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.txt which contained this choice tidbit.

2014-11-02 17:22:10,545 DEBUG blacklist expr '^postgresql-.*[0-9]\.[0-9].*' matches 'postgresql-plperl-9.3'
2014-11-02 17:22:10,545 DEBUG The package 'postgresql-plperl-9.3' is marked for removal but it's in the removal blacklist
2014-11-02 17:22:10,559 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'The package 'postgresql-plperl-9.3' is marked for removal but it is in the removal blacklist.'

Manually removing postgresql-plperl-9.3 appears to be allowing the
release upgrade to proceed.


** Also affects: postgresql-9.3 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** No longer affects: postgresql-9.3 (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  do-release-upgrade to 14.10 fails

Status in “ubuntu-release-upgrader” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Initially, I had third party packages.  I purged them, removed
  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*, and even purged the system of the
  community-supported apps.  Now the only packages on the system are
  officially supported ones.

  Occasionally, I got errors about a 0xA0 Unicode decode error, which I
  eventually tracked to a completely messed up  /var/lib/update-manager
  /meta-release which was an HTML file.  I deleted it and let the system
  recreate it on a further run of do-release-upgrade.  The new version
  appears to be good.

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  $ apt-cache policy ubuntu-release-upgrader-core
  ubuntu-release-upgrader-core:
    Installed: 1:0.220.5
    Candidate: 1:0.220.5
    Version table:
   *** 1:0.220.5 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:0.220.2 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-39.66-generic 3.13.11.8
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-39-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  Date: Sun Nov  2 17:24:50 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-25 (1104 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-11-02 (0 days ago)
  mtime.conffile..etc.update.manager.release.upgrades: 2014-11-02T12:49:47.454560

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