[Bug 1916309] Re: Cannot upgrade to 20.10 from 20.04

[Luis Alberto Pabón]

Curiously the URL on the debug for the release upgrader does not have
focal in it:

https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-development

Dist: groovy
Name: Groovy Gorilla
Version: 20.10
Date: Thu, 22 October 2020 20:22:00 UTC
Supported: 1
Description: This is the 20.10 release
Release-File: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/groovy-updates/Release
ReleaseNotes: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/groovy-updates/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/ReleaseAnnouncement
ReleaseNotesHtml: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/groovy-updates/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/ReleaseAnnouncement.html
UpgradeTool: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/groovy-updates/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/groovy.tar.gz
UpgradeToolSignature: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/groovy-updates/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/groovy.tar.gz.gpg

Dist: hirsute
Name: Hirsute Hippo
Version: 21.04
Date: Thu, 22 April 2021 21:04:00 UTC
Supported: 1
Description: This is the 21.04 release
Release-File: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hirsute/Release
ReleaseNotes: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hirsute/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/DevelReleaseAnnouncement
ReleaseNotesHtml: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hirsute/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/DevelReleaseAnnouncement.html
UpgradeTool: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hirsute/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/hirsute.tar.gz
UpgradeToolSignature: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hirsute/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/hirsute.tar.gz.gpg

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Title:
  Cannot upgrade to 20.10 from 20.04

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

Bug description:
  I'm trying to upgrade to 20.10 from 20.04 to no avail:

  ```
  root at luis-XPS-15-9560 /h/luis# DEBUG_UPDATE_MANAGER=1 do-release-upgrade -d
  Checking for a new Ubuntu release
  MetaRelease.__init__() useDevel=True useProposed=False
  /etc/update-manager/meta-release: https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release 
  /etc/update-manager/meta-release: https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts 
  /etc/update-manager/meta-release: -development 
  /etc/update-manager/meta-release: -proposed 
  metarelease-uri: https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-development
  MetaRelease.download()
  have self.metarelease_information
  MetaRelease.parse()
  current dist name: 'focal'
  found distro name: 'groovy'
  found distro name: 'hirsute'
  current dist not found in meta-release file

  Upgrades to the development release are only 
  available from the latest supported release.

  ~ lsb_release -a

  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
  Release:	20.04
  Codename:	focal

  ```

  /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades has:
  ```
  [DEFAULT]
  Prompt=normal
  ```

  /var/lib/update-manager/meta-release has entries for focal, groovy and
  hirsute: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/dRkW8ZG5Df/

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:20.04.30
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-43.49~20.04.1-generic 5.8.18
  Uname: Linux 5.8.0-43-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.16
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: sway
  Date: Fri Feb 19 23:45:03 2021
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2021-01-11T10:06:24.732377
  mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2021-02-19T23:33:06.852046

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