Upgrade to Maverick not working

[J]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 13:52, Claudio Moretti <flyingstar16 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I tried filing a bug (#593321) for this, but I got no answers, and this lead
> me to think that I'm missing a step in the upgrade process.
> The factis, "do-release-upgrade -d" is not working.
> I tried tcpdump-ing my own traffic and found out that release announcements
> are pulled from http://rookery.canonical.com/
> There, I saw entries about Maverick
> (http://rookery.canonical.com/meta-release-development), so I think that the
> do-release-upgrade tool should correctly notice there is a new development
> release, and ask me to confim the upgrade.
> Instead, I keep getting this annoying
>>
>> claudio at Jarvis:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade -d
>> [sudo] password for claudio:
>> Checking for a new ubuntu release
>> No new release found
>
> Am I the only one? Is there something I forgot? Because
> http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/maverick/alpha1 points out that this will do
> (and yes, I've also tried "do-release-upgrade --devel-release" and
> "update-manager -d" with no success)
> Thanks,
> Claudio

First, are you upgrading your working system to Maverick Alpha?  Do
you understand the consequences of this, if you are?

I just wanted to ask that first, because I've seen a lot of people
installing alpha level releases on their working systems without
understanding that doing so WILL break things...  SO just a word of
caution... don't upgrade to Maverick if you're planning on doing so on
your good, working system.  Only do it on a test system or
installation that you don't mind breaking during the process... (or in
a VM which is how I do most of my test work)...

Now, the next question is: what is your system running now?  If it's
running 10.04 LTS, the default is to only upgrade to new LTS releases.
 If you want to take a 10.04 LTS system and use update-manager or
do-release-upgrade, you need to edit the file

/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades

that file is pretty well documented so you'll be able to see what all
the options do.

changing prompt from lts to normal should do the trick.

If you are not running one of the LTS releases, let us know what
release you are running...

Cheers,

Jeff