10.04 -> 12.04 Upgrade . Server. do-release-upgrade fail. What sources to change

Question

I am current trying to upgrade a ubuntu server via ssh. I am stuck since i can not perform a do-release-upgrade. It tries maverick instead of trying 12.04

Essentially I think he is failing because 12.04 is an old release. I had to change /var/lib/update-manager/meta-release to start using old-releases mirrors instead of archive since it was failing before with another problem.

My sources : http://pastebin.com/xrFTaKjn My /var/lib/update-manager/meta-release : http://pastebin.com/A3Zs6DYx

What is wrong?

My error:

Checking for a new ubuntu release Done Upgrade tool signature Done Upgrade tool Done downloading             authenticate 'maverick.tar.gz' against 'maverick.tar.gz.gpg'  extracting 'maverick.tar.gz' tar: Removing leading `/' from member names

Reading cache

Checking package manager Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree         Reading state information... Done Building data structures... Done  Reading package lists... Done     Building dependency tree           Reading state information... Done Building data structures... Done 

Updating repository information WARNING: Failed to read mirror file 35% [Working]  Error during update 

A problem occurred during the update. This is usually some sort of  network problem, please check your network connection and retry. 

W:Failed to fetch  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]  , W:Failed to fetch  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]  , W:Failed to fetch  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]  , W:Failed to fetch  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/restricted/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]  , W:Failed to fetch  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]  , W:Failed to fetch  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]  , W:Failed to fetch  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/main/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]  , W:Failed to fetch  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/restricted/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]  , W:Failed to fetch  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/universe/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.202 80]  , E:Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or  old ones used instead. 


Restoring original system state

Aborting Reading package lists... Done     Building dependency tree    Reading state information... Done Building data structures... Done

Solution

It fails because you are on 10.10 (Maverick) and not 10.04 (Lucid). Upgrading from 10.10 to 12.04 is unsupported, while 10.04 -> 12.04 should work.

10.10 is no longer supported, and there is no upgrade path to any supported currently release. Just backup, and reinstall.

12.04 will be supported until Aprl 2015.

To upgrade from 10.04 server to the next LTS, install update-manager-core,
then edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades, and set Prompt=lts.

You'll obviously have to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list and reset every line back to lucid first.

Comments

[fabiim]

No. lsb_release -a says: Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS. But you have a nice point, my pastebin shows references to trying to fetch Maverick updates. I do not understand why... I want to upgrade to 12.04

[mikewhatever]

Looks like your system is set to upgrade to the next release, 10.10. See the edit above for upgrading to the next LTS.

[oligofren]

For repeated upgrades over ssh without prompting, see this answer askubuntu.com/a/304980/165026