[Bug 1743995] Re: Upgrade 17.04 to 17.10 not possible

[ZdravkoG]

When all hardware available on (or accessible from) the system is
directly supported (either as free software or from supplier support),
the clean install is good solution. Unfortunately, my case is not like
this. In my configuration exist build-in components with partial support
and also some of my peripheral devices are without or buggy support. In
many cases additional components and/or additional configurations are
needed after install (done by hand). I don't want to repeat everything
again (which is error prone). My current settings (and installed
components) work well and I will try to keep this untouched, so clean
install will be the 'extreme' thing (the last one) I will do. I rely
that upgrade script fix ('/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade' - python script
and/or related data) will be much simpler thing to do with some help
here (probably one or few lines to be fixed).

Release file http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/artful/Release is the one needed for the new release (one from all). The error message show that during upgrade (during prepare in fact) script rely to discover Release file in place like 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/stable/'. Such place does not exist either on expected domain or on 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'. I am not sure, but it seems like 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu stable Release' is wrongly formatted.
If someone have more experience - Please Help here!

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Title:
  Upgrade 17.04 to 17.10 not possible

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Expected: Upgrade 17.04 to 17.10

  Result: 
  E:The repository 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu stable Release' does not have a Release file.

  Also, Upgrade server has a circular reference
  see http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/...

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