ubuntu-studio 8.04 amd64 Distribution Upgrade Hangs

Please open copy and paste your /etc/apt/sources.list here

Thank you

That was quick. Thanks.

What is an /etc/apt/sources.list?

in a termindal copy and paste this, please:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Then copy and paste the document here.

# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423)]/ hardy main restricted
deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016)]/ gutsy main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted

## 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
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-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.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-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://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-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 gutsy partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main universe restricted multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe main multiverse restricted #Added by software-properties
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-security universe main multiverse restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-security universe main multiverse restricted
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe main multiverse restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe main multiverse restricted
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse

Here's mine. Same as my other machine prior to upgrading to 8.04. Save a backup of your sources first, paste this in over the sources.list and save, then give it a go. I removed some other repos that you weren't showing to make it easier. You'll have your backup in case of disaster, but it looks like you just have a few repos commented out to me.

# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016)]/ gutsy main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted

## 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
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-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://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-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://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-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 gutsy partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-proposed restricted main multiverse universe

Shoot, just noticed you had Great Britain mirrors, I use US mirrors.

You may want to compare mine with yours and just remove the offending # symbols... Shoulda looked closer, my bad.

No, can't do- I get "Could not save the file /etc/apt/sources.list. ... You do not have the necessary permissions to save the file."

did you open it the same way as before?
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Then you are superuser and can save a backup as /etc/apt/sources_backup.list
Then exit the file, reopen with the same sudo command as above and save with the changes as the original filename.
You noticed the differences in what you have with # and what I do, right?
If you edit that file, you really need to be sure about it. (Hence the backup)
=)

Please edit, modify and save your /etc/apt/sources.list by typing:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Hope this helps

I found the file inside a thing called 'filesystem' and opened it with a text editor. I see now that if I open f with a terminal command I can edit it. Anyway, done as was suggested and put Douglas Smiths file there, but no change whatever. The updater still tells me that a new distribution release is available. I click on 'upgrade', it gets as far as the 'Distribution Upgrade' window and "preparing to upgrade", the just goes grey and stops.

Let's try a terminal based distribution upgrade and see what happens...

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -d

What effect does this have?

I get...

glyn@glyn-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -d
[sudo] password for glyn:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
glyn@glyn-laptop:~$

... and that's all

What do you get when you do the following in our terminal?

cat /etc/lsb-release

I would rather do

sudo do-release-upgrade

Hope this helps.

glyn@glyn-laptop:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.10"
glyn@glyn-laptop:~$

sudo do-release-upgrade

Ralph is right...

Any luck?

sudo do-release-upgrade

That appears to work, thank you very much Douglas and Ralph

Ralph-
You're in London, right?
Do you see any major issues in his /etc/apt/sources.list that could be causing headaches?
He's using gb repos...

Cool-
Nevermind the last post, I suppose.

@douglas... Yes I have seen the same error on the GB archive when everybody started upgrades