do-release-upgrade crashes if meta-release file is not up to date
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
On an up to date Xenial with Prompt=LTS
$ do-release-upgrade -cd
ERROR:root:parse failed for '/var/lib/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/
while index_tag.step():
SystemError: E:Unable to parse package file (1)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/
self.parse()
File "/usr/lib/
self.
UpdateManager.
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Upgrades to the development release are only
available from the latest supported release.
| description: | updated |
| Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Medium → High |
| assignee: | nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray) |
| importance: | High → Critical |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
| tags: | added: rls-bb-incoming |
| Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote | #1 |
| tags: | removed: rls-bb-incoming |
| Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Critical → Medium |
| summary: |
- do-release-upgrade -cd on xenial fails with "Parse failed on meta- - release-lts-development" + do-release-upgrade crashes if meta-release file is not up to date |
| Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | Brian Murray (brian-murray) → nobody |
I've added bionic to the meta-release-