Question
Can't upgrade from 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS
- Posted on October 21, 2020
- Ubuntu 18.04Ubuntu 20.04
Asked by Christopher Ringe
I’ve been trying for weeks to no avail to upgrade my VPS from Ubuntu 18 LTS to 20 LTS. It keeps erroring out, and I haven’t been able to figure out why.
root@www:/etc/apt# do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [1,554 B]
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,336 kB]
Fetched 1,338 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
authenticate 'focal.tar.gz' against 'focal.tar.gz.gpg'
extracting 'focal.tar.gz'
Reading cache
Checking package manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Hit http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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Updating repository information
Third party sources disabled
Some third party entries in your sources.list were disabled. You can
re-enable them after the upgrade with the 'software-properties' tool
or your package manager.
To continue please press [ENTER]
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [107 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease [265 kB]
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main Sources [93.9 kB]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/universe Sources [38.6 kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages [8,628 kB]
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages [342 kB]
Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main i386 Packages [140 kB]
Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main Translation-en [78.5 kB]
Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 c-n-f Metadata [4,992 B]
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe i386 Packages [4,642 kB]
Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/restricted amd64 Packages [65.8 kB]
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Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe Translation-en [5,124 kB]
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Checking package manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Invalid package information
After updating your package information, the essential package
'ubuntu-minimal' could not be located. This may be because you have
no official mirrors listed in your software sources, or because of
excessive load on the mirror you are using. See /etc/apt/sources.list
for the current list of configured software sources.
In the case of an overloaded mirror, you may want to try the upgrade
again later.
Restoring original system state
Aborting
g package lists... 0%
*** Collecting problem information
The collected information can be sent to the developers to improve the
application. This might take a few minutes.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
..
=== Command terminated with exit status 1 (Wed Oct 21 10:19:16 2020) ===
I’m using the standard DigitalOcean sources list (below)
## Note, this file is written by cloud-init on first boot of an instance
## modifications made here will not survive a re-bundle.
## if you wish to make changes you can:
## a.) add 'apt_preserve_sources_list: true' to /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg
## or do the same in user-data
## b.) add sources in /etc/apt/sources.list.d
## c.) make changes to template file /etc/cloud/templates/sources.list.tmpl
#
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.
deb http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic main restricted
deb-src http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic main restricted
## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic-updates main restricted
deb-src http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic-updates main restricted
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic universe
deb-src http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic universe
deb http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic-updates universe
deb-src http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic-updates universe
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic multiverse
deb-src http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic multiverse
deb http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic-updates multiverse
deb-src http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic-updates multiverse
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security main restricted multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security main
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security universe
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security multiverse
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security multiverse
# deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib
# deb-src http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic universe
Any help would be appreciated!
Regards.
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I found a solution on my own… I completely replaced sources.list with the real ubuntu 18.04 one, rather than the digital ocean mirror list. It seems the Digital Ocean mirrors are problematic.
Original source.list can be found here:
https://gist.github.com/h0bbel/4b28ede18d65c3527b11b12fa36aa8d1
Afterwards the update work without a hitch.
Make sure if you have any special repositories outside of the ubunutu ones (like webmin, plex, etc.), that you backup your sources list first. You’ll likely need to copy those back into the source.list after 20.04 is done installing and rebooted.
Following should work:
No need to manually edit
sources.listas suggested in another post.I’ve come across this issue today (a bit late to the party I know). Updated 18.04 to 20.04 on a private self-managed machine just fine, but DO droplet came back with the same issues.
Making a backup (optional, but good practise) and deleting the old source.list did the trick for me, getting past the Aborting stage like the OP stated. I did noticed a whole bunch
No candidate ver:this time round, but currently in the process of updating the Ubuntu version.Hopefully it’ll do the trick!