[Bug 1815662] [NEW] upgrade failed looking for ubuntu-minimal -- using mirrors.ubuntu.com in sources

[Tommy Trussell]

Public bug reported:

I tried to do an upgrade and it looked like it was starting well, but
then it complained about the missing ubuntu-minimal package. From
looking at the suggested similar errors just now I suspect it's due to
using mirrors.ubuntu.com for my packages

Months ago I switched to mirrors.ubuntu.com on this netbook because for
whatever reason it seems to get really slow updating using any of the
regular sources I have tried. For some reason it works much faster using
mirrors. On the downside, I have noted a couple of difficulties
attempting to pull updates from mirrors over the months, and this is
probably one of them. I presume it comes down to packages not being
fully distributed when the updates occur, or maybe some other glitch
with the mirrors logic.

I'm going ahead and noting this in case it's helpful to someone. I'm
going to try the upgrade again with an "ordinary" sources.list and if I
think to I'll update this bug.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.30
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-45.48-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-45-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Tue Feb 12 13:15:04 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-08-14 (182 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2019-02-12 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog:
 Log time: 2019-02-12 12:45:55.807717
 Log time: 2019-02-12 12:46:29.637440
 Log time: 2019-02-12 12:49:54.070405
 Log time: 2019-02-12 13:15:15.008205
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
 
mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2019-02-12T12:37:09.175187

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


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

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Title:
  upgrade failed looking for ubuntu-minimal -- using mirrors.ubuntu.com
  in sources

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

Bug description:
  I tried to do an upgrade and it looked like it was starting well, but
  then it complained about the missing ubuntu-minimal package. From
  looking at the suggested similar errors just now I suspect it's due to
  using mirrors.ubuntu.com for my packages

  Months ago I switched to mirrors.ubuntu.com on this netbook because
  for whatever reason it seems to get really slow updating using any of
  the regular sources I have tried. For some reason it works much faster
  using mirrors. On the downside, I have noted a couple of difficulties
  attempting to pull updates from mirrors over the months, and this is
  probably one of them. I presume it comes down to packages not being
  fully distributed when the updates occur, or maybe some other glitch
  with the mirrors logic.

  I'm going ahead and noting this in case it's helpful to someone. I'm
  going to try the upgrade again with an "ordinary" sources.list and if
  I think to I'll update this bug.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.30
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-45.48-generic 4.15.18
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-45-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  Date: Tue Feb 12 13:15:04 2019
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-08-14 (182 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2019-02-12 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeAptlog:
   Log time: 2019-02-12 12:45:55.807717
   Log time: 2019-02-12 12:46:29.637440
   Log time: 2019-02-12 12:49:54.070405
   Log time: 2019-02-12 13:15:15.008205
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
   
  mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2019-02-12T12:37:09.175187

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