CLI Giving Me A Raised Middle Finger

[Bahn, Nathan]

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 9 July 2012 18:31, Bahn, Nathan <nathan.bahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>  If anyone else wants to chime
> >> in on changing the contents of /etc/sources (if memory serves) in the
> >> mean time feel free to.
> >
> > Now I get the following from the Terminal Emulator:
> >
> > $ do-release-upgrade
> > Checking for a new ubuntu release
> > No new release found
> > $
> >
> > Oh, well; at least I'm getting a prompt now!
>
> what about
>
> do-release-upgrade -d
>
> ?
>



$ do-release-upgrade -d
Checking for a new ubuntu release
Unhandled exception in thread started by <bound method
MetaReleaseCore.download of <UpdateManager.Core.MetaRelease.MetaReleaseCore
object at 0x7f4854ec5090>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py", line
261, in download
    uri=urllib2.urlopen(req, timeout=20)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 394, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 412, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 372, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1201, in http_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1174, in do_open
    r = h.getresponse(buffering=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1027, in getresponse
    response.begin()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 407, in begin
    version, status, reason = self._read_status()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 365, in _read_status
    line = self.fp.readline()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 447, in readline
    data = self._sock.recv(self._rbufsize)
socket.timeout: timed out

And no, there is NO prompt at the end!  None.  Zip.  Nada.  Just a
non-blinking cursor.
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