[Bug 1982791] Re: Can not upgrade from Impish anymore, Release files have gone. Upgrading all packages to latest also not working anymore. This is now a broken installation.

[Chris Guiver]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 21.10 (impish) reached end-of-life on July 14, 2022.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Yes Ubuntu 21.10 is EOL, it was announced

- https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2022/06/01/ubuntu-21-10-impish-indri-reaches-end-of-life-on-july-14-2022/
- https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2022/07/19/ubuntu-21-10-impish-indri-end-of-life-reached-on-july-14-2022/

The EOL means you need to modify your sources as is documented here -
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades

Take note of the warnings about EOL, or note it in the initial release
notes of the release, so you release-upgrade before EOL is reached.

I've marked this incomplete as it's an EOL release, and appears to be a
support issue, also documented procedures for EOLUpgrades appears not to
have been attempted.

I suspect a Support site would be more appropriate, eg.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu. You can also find help with your
problem in the support forum of your local Ubuntu community
http://loco.ubuntu.com/ or asking at https://askubuntu.com or
https://ubuntuforums.org, or for more support options please look at
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/community-support/709

** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Can not upgrade from Impish anymore, Release files have gone.
  Upgrading all packages to latest also not working anymore. This is now
  a broken installation.

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

Bug description:
  Noticed the automatic updates/upgrades are not coming in anymore.
  Seems Impish is EOL. Which is fine, we then run a release upgrade. But
  that is refused, since it requires latest versions/nicely upgraded.
  That is not possible as all Release Files are no longer available. So
  can not 'apt update', can not 'apt upgrade' hence can not 'do-release-
  upgrade'.

  From the error messages, started removing Repositories, but now the
  entire installation is broken. Re-install latest is only option. No
  fun.

  lsb_release  -rd
  Description:    Ubuntu 21.10
  Release:        21.10

  apt update
  Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/linuxuprising/apps/ubuntu impish InRelease
  Ign:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish InRelease  
  Ign:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-updates InRelease
  Ign:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-security InRelease
  Err:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish Release
    404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1562::18 80]
  Err:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-updates Release
    404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1562::18 80]
  Err:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-security Release
    404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1562::18 80]
  Reading package lists... Done
  E: The repository 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish Release' does not have a Release file.
  N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
  N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
  E: The repository 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-updates Release' does not have a Release file.
  N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
  N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
  E: The repository 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-security Release' does not have a Release file.
  N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
  N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:21.10.9 [origin: unknown]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-52.59-generic 5.13.19
  Uname: Linux 5.13.0-52-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu71.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  Date: Tue Jul 26 00:49:21 2022
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-08-06 (1084 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Release amd64 (20190416)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to impish on 2022-07-25 (0 days ago)

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