[Bug 1901414] Re: release upgrade crashes

[Rolf Leggewie]

is this still something that needs work 4 years later?

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

** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)

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Title:
  release upgrade crashes

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

Bug description:
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  Fetching
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  Upgrading
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  Error in function: install

  apt_pkg.Error: E:Could not configure 'libc6:amd64'. , E:Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libnss-nis:amd64'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
  Error in sys.excepthook:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 477, in add_to_existing
      self.write(f)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 430, in write
      block = f.read(1048576)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.8/codecs.py", line 322, in decode
      (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byte

  Original exception was:
  apt_pkg.Error: E:Could not configure 'libc6:amd64'. , E:Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libnss-nis:amd64'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
  Error in function: install

  apt_pkg.Error: E:Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libffi8ubuntu1:amd64'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
  Error in sys.excepthook:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 477, in add_to_existing
      self.write(f)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 430, in write
      block = f.read(1048576)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.8/codecs.py", line 322, in decode
      (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byte

  Original exception was:
  apt_pkg.Error: E:Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libffi8ubuntu1:amd64'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)

  Could not install the upgrades

  The upgrade has aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state. A 
  recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a). 

  
  Upgrade infeasible 

  The upgrade could not be completed, there were errors during the 
  upgrade process. 

  
  Restoring original system state

  Aborting
  Reading package lists... Done    
  Building dependency tree          
  Reading state information... Done

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:20.04.28
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-52.57-generic 5.4.65
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-52-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.10
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sun Oct 25 15:23:34 2020
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-09-11 (44 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: release-upgrade
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-10-25 (0 days ago)
  modified.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: [modified]
  mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2020-10-25T14:43:29.129999

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