upgrade 9.04 to 9.10 always propose lucid instead of karmic

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Can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list?

I assume you followed this procedure?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades/Jaunty

I have the same problem as the OP-- after following the EOL Upgrade instructions, I get the same message. It is trying to upgrade to LTS (and, indeed, I want to upgrade to LTS) but it is "not supported with this tool." What other tool can we use?

fwiw, it seems like a bug to me.

Hi mycae,

I followed the official documentation so my /etc/apt/sources.list is:

## EOL upgrade sources.list
# Required
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-security main restricted universe multiverse

# Optional
#deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
#deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-proposed main restricted universe multiverse

Any idea?

Thanks!

some ideas:
1. Is the jaunty system updated to the most recent patches (open terminal and issue sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade)
2. If do-release-upgrade continues to fail, another possibility is to download the karmic alternate CD and to do the upgrade with it

Thank you Manfred.

Suggestion 1 had already been tested but hte same problem occurs.

Regarding suggestion 2, that's exactly what I want to avoid.

Regards

Does update-manager propose a release upgrade?
If yes, to what release?
If karmic, what is the effect of trying that?

What output does

lsb_release -a
uname -a

produce?

I discovered a workaround (thanks to Fabio Marconi):

In the jaunty sources.list file, replace all instances of 'jaunty' with 'karmic' and run update-manager. That pulls in all the karmic updates, and then you reboot into karmic. then run do-release-upgrade to upgrade to lucid.

then struggle with xorg config, but that's a different question :)

Hello !
This worked for me too, I was enable to upgrade from 9.04 to 10.04 LTS but when I've changed in the sources.list file the "jaunty" with "karmic" Ubuntu preopsed to make a partial upgrade then an Upgrade. Thank you for the tip.