System won't upgrade

There is only one step, to upgrade the system. You can (should) backup your data prior to the change but otherwise it's one step

sudo do-release-upgrade

will kick off the action

Can you please give the full output, as well as the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

Hello,

Thank you for the reply.

as for the command: sudo do-release-upgrade

I have tried this and the reply that comes back is "no available upgrades available"

I do not know why. I was just trying to upgrade one step at a time until I got up to 16.04 but nothing happens.

I suppose I could just get thee disk and do a fresh install but I thought if I do one step at a time, I won't lose
files I have on the computer at this point.

Here is the full output of above command.

$ lsb_release -a; uname -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Linux Roo 4.4.0-45-generic #66~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 19 15:05:38 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thank you for the help

What is the full output of the commands
do-release-upgrade --version
DEBUG_UPDATE_MANAGER="Y" do-release-upgrade

Hello,

Thank you for the reply.

Here is the outpoot from the above command.

$ do-release-upgrade --version
do-release-upgrade: version 0.220.3
stan@Roo:~$ DEBUG_UPDATE_MANAGER="Y" do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
MetaRelease.__init__() useDevel=False useProposed=False
/etc/update-manager/meta-release: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release
/etc/update-manager/meta-release: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts
/etc/update-manager/meta-release: -development
/etc/update-manager/meta-release: -proposed
metarelease-uri: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts
MetaRelease.download()
reading file '/home/stan/.cache/update-manager-core/meta-release-lts'
have self.metarelease_information
MetaRelease.parse()
current dist name: 'trusty'
current dist not found in meta-release fi

Thank you.

David

The message "current dist name: 'trusty'
current dist not found in meta-release" is strange.
'trusty' should be found in the meta-release file.

What is the output of

cat -n /etc/update-manager/meta-release
tail -n 20 /home/stan/.cache/update-manager-core/meta-release-lts

Hello,

Thank you for your reply. Here is the output from the above.

~$ cat -n /etc/update-manager/meta-release
     1 # default location for the meta-release file
     2
     3 [METARELEASE]
     4 URI = http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release
     5 URI_LTS = http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts
     6 URI_UNSTABLE_POSTFIX = -development
     7 URI_PROPOSED_POSTFIX = -proposed
stan@Roo:~$ tail -n 20 /home/stan/.cache/update-manager-core/meta-release-lts

Thank you.

The command

tail -n 20 /home/stan/.cache/update-manager-core/meta-release-lts

did not produce any output?

What is the output of

ls -l ~/.cache/update-manager-core/

Hello,

Thank y ou again for your continued help with this. Here is the output from the above command.

$ ls -l ~/.cache/update-manager-core/
total 4
-rw-rw-r-- 1 stan stan 2717 Oct 8 14:02 meta-release-lts

Thank you

Also, just to let you know, I keep getting a message, "ubuntu has experienced an error or serious error".
I send a report each time it comes up. Which is not all the time but sometimes. I do not know if this error has anything to do with
the system not being able to update but jut wanted to add this to the notes.

Thank you

The information provided by you is contradictory.
The meta-release-lts file is shown to have 2717 bytes size, but your output of the command to list its contents was empty.

I have to repeat my request from above:
What is the output of the command
tail -n 20 /home/stan/.cache/update-manager-core/meta-release-lts

And to the other problem: What is the name of the failing package in the message "ubuntu has experienced an error or serious error"?

Hello,

I do not know what is happening to the outputs but I ran the command above again and here is the output.

As far as the system problems, I have not seen another error recently so I cannot post it here but if I get another message, I'll post it.

Here is the output:

$ tail -n 20 /home/stan/.cache/update-manager-core/meta-release-lts
                                <label for="acceptTermsConditions">
                                    <span>I agree to the <a href="/static/sbwifi_tos.html" target="_blank">Terms of Service</a> and have<br>
                                        reviewed the <a href="http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/" target="_blank">Google Privacy Policy</a></span>
                                </label>
                            </fieldset>
                            <div class="page1-help">
                                Need help? <a href="tel:1-855-446-2374">855-446-2374</a>
                            </div>
                        </form>

                    </div>

                </div>

            </div>

        </div>

    </body>
</html>stan@Roo:~$

Thank you,

This is not the expected contents of meta-release-lts, but seems to be some web page that is sent by the web proxy (probably a Public one, maybe at a Starbuck's) if you haven't authenticated or not accepted the license terms.

I suggest you delete that file an re-try the release upgrade.

Try

rm /home/stan/.cache/update-manager-core/meta-release-lts
DEBUG_UPDATE_MANAGER="Y" do-release-upgrade

What do you get now?

Hello,

Thank you for your reply.

Well, this one seemed to get things rolling and it seemed it was going to install the 16.04 package. It got started but shortly afterwards, it abandoned the upgrade. Maybe you can find the problem here. I copied the whole output.

I do spend a lot of my time at Starbucks as I do not have interenet at home and so I work on my laptop a lot.
I download and update my system on Starbucks internet and have not had a problem before. But if looks like it is a problem after you read the output, the I can try to go to a different place.

~$ rm /home/stan/.cache/update-manager-core/meta-release-lts
stan@Roo:~$ DEBUG_UPDATE_MANAGER="Y" do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
MetaRelease.__init__() useDevel=False useProposed=False
/etc/update-manager/meta-release: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release
/etc/update-manager/meta-release: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts
/etc/update-manager/meta-release: -development
/etc/update-manager/meta-release: -proposed
metarelease-uri: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts
MetaRelease.download()
have self.metarelease_information
MetaRelease.parse()
current dist name: 'trusty'
found distro name: 'dapper'
found distro name: 'hardy'
found distro name: 'lucid'
found distro name: 'precise'
found distro name: 'trusty'
found distro name: 'xenial'
new dist: <UpdateManager.Core.MetaRelease.Dist object at 0x7f5712cc7128>
trying to find suitable mirror
mirror_from_sources_list: trusty
url_downloadable: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu//dists/xenial-updates/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/xenial.tar.gz.gpg
s='http' n='us.archive.ubuntu.com' p='/ubuntu//dists/xenial-updates/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/xenial.tar.gz.gpg' q='' f=''
trying to find suitable mirror
mirror_from_sources_list: trusty
url_downloadable: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu//dists/xenial-updates/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/xenial.tar.gz
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Host: us.archive.ubuntu.com
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Last-Modified: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 15:18:28 GMT
ETag: "c6-53a45fa2d9900"
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Content-Type: application/x-gzip

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[sudo] password for stan:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for stan:

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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.

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It was not possible to authenticate some packages. This may be a
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gstreamer1.0-vaapi

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stan@Roo:~$

Thank you,
David

I am glad to hear that the cause for your problem finally has been found.

The new problem is something what I have never seen so far.
You might try uninstalling gstreamer1.0-vaapi before the upgrade attempt. Maybe that helps.

(Note, adding the DEBUG code should no more be necessary, you can now use just "do-release-upgrade").

Hello,

Thank you for your help.

I do not know how to do the step below.

"You might try uninstalling gstreamer1.0-vaapi before the upgrade attempt. Maybe that helps".
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What are the steps to do this and will it cause any problems with my system?

Thank you,
David

For evaluating the effects of uninstalling that package please provide the output of the following commands:

apt-cache policy gstreamer1.0-vaapi
apt-get --simulate remove gstreamer1.0-vaapi

(That package is related to audit/video codecs, and I am will quite sure that removing it will not cause problems.)

Hello,

Ok hare is the output from the first command:

~$ apt-cache policy gstreamer1.0-vaapi
gstreamer1.0-vaapi:
  Installed: 0.5.7-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 0.5.7-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 0.5.7-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
stan@Roo:~$

Here is the one from the second command:

~$ apt-get --simulate remove gstreamer1.0-vaapi
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
      apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
      Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
      so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  audacious-plugins-data gtk2-engines-pixbuf libaudclient2 libaudcore1
  libavresample1 libbinio1ldbl libbs2b0 libcue1 libgavl1 libgoocanvas-common
  libgoocanvas3 libguess1 libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libmkv0 libmlt-data
  libmowgli2 libsox-fmt-alsa libsox-fmt-base libsox2 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0
  libwebkitgtk-1.0-common linux-headers-4.4.0-34
  linux-headers-4.4.0-34-generic linux-image-4.4.0-34-generic
  linux-image-extra-4.4.0-34-generic openshot-doc python-pygoocanvas
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gstreamer1.0-vaapi
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Remv gstreamer1.0-vaapi [0.5.7-0ubuntu4]
stan@Roo:~$

I hope this helps.

I hope it will not cause a problem to remove the package.
If it does, then I guess I will have to do a fresh install of 16.04 from a disk.

Also, I was wondering, do I really need to update the system to 16.04
or is it ok to keep 14.04 until it is no longer supported?
Does it make a difference?

Thank you.

There is no immediate need to upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04.
Support for 14.04 will be until April 2019.

16.04 will be supported until April 2021, and contains several updated package versions.

It is your choice.

I do not expect any problem from removing gstreamer1.0-vaapi, no other packages depend on it, and I assume that you never really needed that package.

I would suggest removing it with the command

sudo apt-get purge gstreamer1.0-vaapi

and I recommend that you do a cleanup by uninstalling the obsolete packages that were listed in the last apt-get output with the command

sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

thank you, This solved the problem.