u-r-u should leave a breadcrumb indicating a dist-upgrade is in progress

Bug #1939616 reported by Brian Murray
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apport (Ubuntu)
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Impish
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
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Impish
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update-notifier (Ubuntu)
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Impish
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Bug Description

Looking at the source code of ubuntu-release-upgrader it looks like an environment variable, RELEASE_UPGRADE_IN_PROGRESS, is set when an upgrade is being performed. However, it would be better if there was an indication that other programs, e.g. apport, could use to tell whether or not a release upgrade was in progress.

This came up as we saw some crash reports in the error tracker that didn't make sense and a possible explanation is that a release upgrade was in progress.

Tags: fr-1611
tags: added: rls-ii-incoming
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote (last edit ):

The last comments in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1908050 are about the crash report to which I allude in the bug description.

Additionally, Laney suggests that update-notifier shouldn't run when a dist-upgrade is in progress so that package should also be modified to check for this breadcrumb.

tags: added: fr-1611
tags: removed: rls-ii-incoming
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that specific release.

Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu Impish):
status: New → Won't Fix
Changed in apport (Ubuntu Impish):
status: New → Won't Fix
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Impish):
status: New → Won't Fix
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