[Bug 2091316] [NEW] Upgrade from 22.04 to 24.04 failed

[Fabian Tröster]

Public bug reported:

Upgrade from 22.04 to 24.04 failed.
Result is a misconfiguration. 22.04 is now in a state that makes it unable to update itself. Upgrade to 24.04 is impossible due to the package “update-manager” being marked for removal. Why?!
This keeps happening every time a release upgrade from one LTS to another is available. I don't understand. On some machines the upgrade works fine and on others it crashes and leaves behind a chaos that renders the operating system more or less unusable. This problem has existed at least since Ubuntu 12.04 and I'm really sorry for saying this: How hard can it be to get this under control?
So ... I now have a lot of work in front of me trying to fix my now botched installation of 22.04 in order to be able to continue using it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:22.04.20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-109049.49~22.04.1tux1-tuxedo 6.8.12
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-109049-tuxedo x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.6
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Dec  9 19:48:32 2024
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2024-12-09 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
 
modified.conffile..etc.default.apport:
 # set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
 # you can temporarily override this with
 # sudo service apport start force_start=1
 enabled=0
mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2022-09-13T10:53:12.624011

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


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade jammy third-party-packages

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Title:
  Upgrade from 22.04 to 24.04 failed

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

Bug description:
  Upgrade from 22.04 to 24.04 failed.
  Result is a misconfiguration. 22.04 is now in a state that makes it unable to update itself. Upgrade to 24.04 is impossible due to the package “update-manager” being marked for removal. Why?!
  This keeps happening every time a release upgrade from one LTS to another is available. I don't understand. On some machines the upgrade works fine and on others it crashes and leaves behind a chaos that renders the operating system more or less unusable. This problem has existed at least since Ubuntu 12.04 and I'm really sorry for saying this: How hard can it be to get this under control?
  So ... I now have a lot of work in front of me trying to fix my now botched installation of 22.04 in order to be able to continue using it.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:22.04.20
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-109049.49~22.04.1tux1-tuxedo 6.8.12
  Uname: Linux 6.8.0-109049-tuxedo x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.6
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Mon Dec  9 19:48:32 2024
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2024-12-09 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
   
  modified.conffile..etc.default.apport:
   # set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
   # you can temporarily override this with
   # sudo service apport start force_start=1
   enabled=0
  mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2022-09-13T10:53:12.624011

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