[Bug 1745869] [NEW] do-release-upgrade fails because mirrors don't have both amd64 and arm64 architectures

[Jon Watte]

Public bug reported:

do-release-upgrade fails. I'm told this may be because I have multiarch
added arm64 support to do cross compilation to arm64 targets, and many
mirrors only support amd64/i386 architectures.

Unfortunately, do-release-upgrade swaps out my sources.list, and there
is no command line option to tell it to use the main ubuntu repository,
so I have no idea how to work around this problem. Meanwhile, I'm now
stuck with an old, unsupported OS version.

The do-release-upgrader seems to run in some sub-window mode where I
can't scroll back, and thus can't copy/paste all of the output, but I
captured the beginning and end bits.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:17.04.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-40.44-generic 4.10.17
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-40-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.10
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7
Date: Sun Jan 28 11:30:30 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-26 (154 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2018-01-28 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog:
 Log time: 2018-01-27 17:47:11.670316
 Log time: 2018-01-27 17:47:15.555128
 Log time: 2018-01-27 17:47:46.586111

** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade zesty

** Attachment added: "beginning and end of output of do-release-upgrade"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1745869/+attachment/5044647/+files/log.txt

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Title:
  do-release-upgrade fails because mirrors don't have both amd64 and
  arm64 architectures

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

Bug description:
  do-release-upgrade fails. I'm told this may be because I have
  multiarch added arm64 support to do cross compilation to arm64
  targets, and many mirrors only support amd64/i386 architectures.

  Unfortunately, do-release-upgrade swaps out my sources.list, and there
  is no command line option to tell it to use the main ubuntu
  repository, so I have no idea how to work around this problem.
  Meanwhile, I'm now stuck with an old, unsupported OS version.

  The do-release-upgrader seems to run in some sub-window mode where I
  can't scroll back, and thus can't copy/paste all of the output, but I
  captured the beginning and end bits.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:17.04.10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-40.44-generic 4.10.17
  Uname: Linux 4.10.0-40-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.10
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7
  Date: Sun Jan 28 11:30:30 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-26 (154 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2018-01-28 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeAptlog:
   Log time: 2018-01-27 17:47:11.670316
   Log time: 2018-01-27 17:47:15.555128
   Log time: 2018-01-27 17:47:46.586111

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