[Bug 2077984] [NEW] Upgrade from jammy to noble is interrupted due to apt-listchanges error

[Kakurady Drakenar]

Public bug reported:

During upgrade, USB and Bluetooth devices stopped working. Using the
laptop's built-in keyboard, I dismissed a dialog in the terminal on
whether to replace a local configuration file with the maintainer's
version. The terminal showed an error message about unable to execute
apt-listchanges and stopped dpkg from running. The upgrader showed a
dialog that the upgrade failed and the system is in an unusable state.
Dismissing the dialog led to another dialog that the upgrade succeeded
with errors.

This left the system in a half-installed state without a desktop
environment. I was able to manually bring up the network interface and
configure DNS, and continue with apt-get dist-upgrade.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:24.04.22
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-118.128-generic 5.15.160
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-118-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Aug 27 12:10:02 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-03 (3099 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160303)
PackageArchitecture: all
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2024-08-27 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
 
mtime.conffile..etc.init.d.apport: 2024-07-22T10:59:07
mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2024-08-27T06:50:39.881285

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


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade jammy wayland-session

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Title:
  Upgrade from jammy to noble is interrupted due to apt-listchanges
  error

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

Bug description:
  During upgrade, USB and Bluetooth devices stopped working. Using the
  laptop's built-in keyboard, I dismissed a dialog in the terminal on
  whether to replace a local configuration file with the maintainer's
  version. The terminal showed an error message about unable to execute
  apt-listchanges and stopped dpkg from running. The upgrader showed a
  dialog that the upgrade failed and the system is in an unusable state.
  Dismissing the dialog led to another dialog that the upgrade succeeded
  with errors.

  This left the system in a half-installed state without a desktop
  environment. I was able to manually bring up the network interface and
  configure DNS, and continue with apt-get dist-upgrade.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:24.04.22
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-118.128-generic 5.15.160
  Uname: Linux 5.15.0-118-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Tue Aug 27 12:10:02 2024
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-03 (3099 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160303)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: release-upgrade
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2024-08-27 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
   
  mtime.conffile..etc.init.d.apport: 2024-07-22T10:59:07
  mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2024-08-27T06:50:39.881285

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