25.04: Upgrade temporarily offered, but not anymore

[rikona]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 09:06:58 -0400
Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey there,
> 
> rikona wrote:
> 
> >I actually do want to upgrade 22.04 Kubuntu to 24.04, even though
> >this discussion was for other upgrades.  
> 
> Ah, okay.
> 
> >I was just wondering if THAT bug may be causing my 22.04 Kubuntu to
> >24.04 upgrade problem. Was just a thought/question.  
> 
> All four of the bugs on the Discourse page only affect upgrades to
> 25.04, so those have nothing to do with your upgrade to 24.04. Is the
> "Could not calculate the upgrade" error happening when trying to
> upgrade 22.04 to 24.04?

Yes - just saw that on Oli post. And yes, same useless error msgs in
dozens of tries.

> 
> >I am considering a new Kubuntu install, which I'm assuming would work
> >OK, but might lose some useful system-level data. Then add data from
> >backups. Not my preferred way to go.  
> 
> It's how I always do it. I back up my /home/elliria directory, do a
> fresh installation of Kubuntu on the machine, and then copy over
> anything I need about from the backup afterwards. There's always a
> bunch of tweaking for several days because each release does some
> things differently that previous releases. It's never a joy to do and
> it usually takes me about a week to properly settle in, but it makes
> for clean upgrades.

Interesting. That's how I thought it would go. But I'm not as capable
as many/most of the folks here, so I was thinking a month or two. :-)
Are many/most of the problems caused by not-quite-right stuff that was
in the old home dir?

Thanks much for the reply,
Rik

> >Not sure waiting for this bug fix is a good way to go.  
> 
> The bug is marked critical, so it's kind of odd that it still hasn't
> been assigned to anyone yet, but they usually take care of critical
> bugs pretty quickly. The last recent critical bug that affected me
> prevented those of us who use rsync from backing up our machines and
> the Ubuntu team hurried up and fixed it.
>