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Does anybody know why this happens when I try to do-release-upgrade 18.04 in WSL? I didn't have trouble going from 16.04 to 18.04... $ do-release-upgrade C

Does anybody know why this happens when I try to do-release-upgrade 18.04 in WSL? I didn't have trouble going from 16.04 to 18.04... $ do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [819 B] Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,243 kB] Fetched 1,244 kB in 0s (0 B/s) authenticate 'cosmic.tar.gz' against 'cosmic.tar.gz.gpg' extracting 'cosmic.tar.gz' [sudo] password for $USER: $

trogdor3000 8y ago
You have to add a flag to get off of the LTS brach, Maybe '-d"? Both 16.04 and 180.04 are LTS. the next LTS will be 20.04
- mehrdadn 8y ago
  Thanks, but nope that's not the issue, I've already done both. It's just failing to do anything for some reason. $ do-release-upgrade -p -c Checking for a new Ubuntu release New release '18.10' available. Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.
  - e12e 8y ago
    I'm not sure if do-release-upgrade supports skipping releases, except for going from lts to lts? In other words, it might either: 16.04 -> 18.04 -> 20.04, or 18.04 -> 18.10 -> 19.04. But not 18.04 (lts) -> 19.04?
    - mehrdadn 8y ago
      I think it should: https://askubuntu.com/a/240189 https://askubuntu.com/a/240189
      - e12e 8y ago
        Actually, that answer seems to imply that "skipping" is just for lts>lts?
        mehrdadn 8y ago
        I guess so. In my case I'm not skipping anything. It's set to normal and clearly trying to get 18.10.
        e12e 8y ago
        Ah, I missed your original comment. I see you hit a bug with missing depencies.
anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
IIRC, do-release-upgrade won't upgrade between LTS releases until the .2 release.
- mehrdadn 8y ago
  Yup but I've already turned off the LTS setting.
  - anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
    Sorry, brain fart – you have to upgrade between non-LTS releases sequentially, as far as I know there's no supported way to upgrade to 19.04 from anything but 18.10. (in general, to get to release n, you must either be on release n-1, or n must be an LTS and you must be on the previous LTS.)
    - mehrdadn 8y ago
      Yeah but that's what it's trying to do too, and that's exactly what's failing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19693284 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19693284
      - anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
        Sorry, totally missed that. Looks like some other people have had similar issues with upgrading to previous versions: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3489 https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3489 (though the issue is for (I think) 16.04->18.04, someone mentions that it also affects 18.04->18.10) it's strange that that's all the output you get, though. Apparently it puts logs in /var/log/dist-upgrade/, is there more there?
        mehrdadn 8y ago
        AHH, thank you! /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log explains why! It's indeed another instance of a bug I already saw when upgrading another system [1] and couldn't figure out -- there's a missing dependency in some Ubuntu package: sudo apt-get install python-distro-info python3-distro-info EDIT: Do yourself a favor and don't upgrade to 19.04 on WSL. VSCode and google-chrome-stable can't start on it. I had to roll back. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1824866 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upg...

trogdor3000 8y ago

You have to add a flag to get off of the LTS brach, Maybe '-d"? Both 16.04 and 180.04 are LTS. the next LTS will be 20.04

mehrdadn 8y ago
Thanks, but nope that's not the issue, I've already done both. It's just failing to do anything for some reason. $ do-release-upgrade -p -c Checking for a new Ubuntu release New release '18.10' available. Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.
- e12e 8y ago
  I'm not sure if do-release-upgrade supports skipping releases, except for going from lts to lts? In other words, it might either: 16.04 -> 18.04 -> 20.04, or 18.04 -> 18.10 -> 19.04. But not 18.04 (lts) -> 19.04?
  - mehrdadn 8y ago
    I think it should: https://askubuntu.com/a/240189 https://askubuntu.com/a/240189
    - e12e 8y ago
      Actually, that answer seems to imply that "skipping" is just for lts>lts?
      - mehrdadn 8y ago
        I guess so. In my case I'm not skipping anything. It's set to normal and clearly trying to get 18.10.
        e12e 8y ago
        Ah, I missed your original comment. I see you hit a bug with missing depencies.

anowlcalledjosh 8y ago

IIRC, do-release-upgrade won't upgrade between LTS releases until the .2 release.

mehrdadn 8y ago
Yup but I've already turned off the LTS setting.
- anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
  Sorry, brain fart – you have to upgrade between non-LTS releases sequentially, as far as I know there's no supported way to upgrade to 19.04 from anything but 18.10. (in general, to get to release n, you must either be on release n-1, or n must be an LTS and you must be on the previous LTS.)
  - mehrdadn 8y ago
    Yeah but that's what it's trying to do too, and that's exactly what's failing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19693284 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19693284
    - anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
      Sorry, totally missed that. Looks like some other people have had similar issues with upgrading to previous versions: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3489 https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3489 (though the issue is for (I think) 16.04->18.04, someone mentions that it also affects 18.04->18.10) it's strange that that's all the output you get, though. Apparently it puts logs in /var/log/dist-upgrade/, is there more there?
      - mehrdadn 8y ago
        AHH, thank you! /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log explains why! It's indeed another instance of a bug I already saw when upgrading another system [1] and couldn't figure out -- there's a missing dependency in some Ubuntu package: sudo apt-get install python-distro-info python3-distro-info EDIT: Do yourself a favor and don't upgrade to 19.04 on WSL. VSCode and google-chrome-stable can't start on it. I had to roll back. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1824866 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upg...