Can't update to 18.04.1?

[Mario0051]

• Windows version / build number:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18219.1000]

• Terminal output:

:~$ sudo -S env RELEASE_UPGRADER_NO_SCREEN=1 do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [819 B]
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,258 kB]
Fetched 1,258 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
authenticate 'bionic.tar.gz' against 'bionic.tar.gz.gpg'
extracting 'bionic.tar.gz'

Reading cache
pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci
lspci: Cannot find any working access method.

Checking package manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Fetched 0 B in 6s (0 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done

Restoring original system state

Aborting
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done

• Expected behavior: Update correctly without Restoring original system state.

[rbalint]

Have you run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade before trying to upgrade?
do-release-upgrade is passing for me in WSL in a fully upgraded Xenial installation.

[rbalint]

Could you please try again and if the upgrade fails check if there is useful information in the logs in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ ?

[Mario0051]

I tried that and in the main.log file it says:

2018-08-21 12:05:59,242 INFO Using config files '['./DistUpgrade.cfg.xenial']'
2018-08-21 12:05:59,242 INFO uname information: 'Linux DESKTOP-T2D0OGA 4.4.0-18219-Microsoft #1000-Microsoft Fri Aug 10 17:21:00 PST 2018 x86_64'
2018-08-21 12:05:59,534 INFO apt version: '1.2.27'
2018-08-21 12:05:59,534 INFO python version: '3.5.2 (default, Nov 23 2017, 16:37:01) 
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609]'
2018-08-21 12:05:59,552 INFO release-upgrader version '18.04.24' started
2018-08-21 12:05:59,744 INFO locale: 'en_US' 'UTF-8'
2018-08-21 12:06:00,076 WARNING estimate_kernel_initrd_size_in_boot() returned '0' for kernel?
2018-08-21 12:06:00,077 WARNING estimate_kernel_initrd_size_in_boot() returned '0' for initrd?
2018-08-21 12:06:01,836 DEBUG Using 'DistUpgradeViewText' view
2018-08-21 12:06:02,734 DEBUG enable dpkg --force-overwrite
2018-08-21 12:06:03,795 DEBUG creating statefile: '/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz'
2018-08-21 12:06:21,085 DEBUG lsb-release: 'xenial'
2018-08-21 12:06:21,091 DEBUG _pythonSymlinkCheck run
2018-08-21 12:06:21,094 DEBUG openCache()
2018-08-21 12:06:21,094 DEBUG No such plugin directory: ./plugins
2018-08-21 12:06:21,095 DEBUG plugins for condition 'PreCacheOpen' are '[]'
2018-08-21 12:06:21,095 DEBUG plugins for condition 'bionicPreCacheOpen' are '[]'
2018-08-21 12:06:21,095 DEBUG plugins for condition 'from_xenialPreCacheOpen' are '[]'
2018-08-21 12:06:21,095 DEBUG quirks: running PreCacheOpen
2018-08-21 12:06:21,095 DEBUG running Quirks.PreCacheOpen
2018-08-21 12:06:26,697 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 56931
2018-08-21 12:06:26,698 DEBUG need_server_mode(): run in 'desktop' mode, (because of pkg 'ubuntu-desktop')
2018-08-21 12:06:26,698 DEBUG checkViewDepends()
2018-08-21 12:06:26,699 DEBUG running doUpdate() (showErrors=False)
2018-08-21 12:07:20,677 DEBUG openCache()
2018-08-21 12:07:21,631 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 56931
2018-08-21 12:07:21,632 DEBUG doPostInitialUpdate
2018-08-21 12:07:21,632 DEBUG plugins for condition 'PostInitialUpdate' are '[]'
2018-08-21 12:07:21,632 DEBUG plugins for condition 'bionicPostInitialUpdate' are '[]'
2018-08-21 12:07:21,632 DEBUG plugins for condition 'from_xenialPostInitialUpdate' are '[]'
2018-08-21 12:07:21,632 DEBUG quirks: running bionicPostInitialUpdate
2018-08-21 12:07:21,632 DEBUG running Quirks.bionicPostInitialUpdate
2018-08-21 12:07:22,703 DEBUG abort called
2018-08-21 12:07:22,707 DEBUG openCache()
2018-08-21 12:07:22,707 DEBUG failed to SystemUnLock() (E:Not locked) 
2018-08-21 12:07:23,245 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 56931

[Mario0051]

Sometimes it hangs at Reading state information... Done.

[RickyPatel]

Was facing the same issue.
Run this command first: sudo apt-get purge snapd
Then upgrade works fine for me

[andras-varro]

This was working for me. (Upgrade 20.04->21.10)

[jonlighthall]

This worked for me for upgrading both 16.04.7 LTS and 18.04.06 LTS to 22.04.2 LTS on WSL2 and WSL1, respectively.

[RyanKruger]

Was facing the same issue. Run this command first: sudo apt-get purge snapd Then upgrade works fine for me

This resolved my issue upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) to Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) on WSL1

[lewisdonofrio]

did you fix dbus? I had to apt-get install inxi -y to get my updates working after I ran:

donofrio@localhost:~ $ cat fix-dbus.sh
echo "Implementing udev workaround (#143 (comment))" >&2
sudo tee /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d > /dev/null <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
exit 101
EOF
sudo chmod +x /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d
sudo dpkg-divert --local --rename --add /sbin/initctl
sudo ln -fs /bin/true /sbin/initctl
donofrio@localhost:~$

[Mario0051]

I tried running apt-get install inxi -y to see if it would be fixed and it still has the same problem.

[imReker]

Same problem and log as you.
Upgraded from 14 to 16 early, but failed to upgrade to 18

[lewisdonofrio]

what error you getting?

[ksjogo]

Same error and logs for 18.04 to 18.10.

[lewisdonofrio]

What error, please get screenshot or paste error info here

[ksjogo]

No real error message is given:

 sudo -S env RELEASE_UPGRADER_NO_SCREEN=1 do-release-upgrade
[sudo] password for ksjogo:
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [819 B]
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,255 kB]
Fetched 1,256 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
authenticate 'cosmic.tar.gz' against 'cosmic.tar.gz.gpg'
extracting 'cosmic.tar.gz'

Reading cache
pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci
lspci: Cannot find any working access method.

Checking package manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [83.2 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]
Fetched 247 kB in 6s (40.2 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done

Restoring original system state

Aborting
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done

2018-11-07 22:05:14,884 INFO Using config files '['./DistUpgrade.cfg']'
2018-11-07 22:05:14,884 INFO uname information: 'Linux LPT-PC0VR8VL 4.4.0-18267-Microsoft #1001-Microsoft Sat Oct 20 19:08:00 PST 2018 x86_64'
2018-11-07 22:05:15,323 INFO apt version: '1.6.6'
2018-11-07 22:05:15,323 INFO python version: '3.6.6 (default, Sep 12 2018, 18:26:19)
[GCC 8.0.1 20180414 (experimental) [trunk revision 259383]]'
2018-11-07 22:05:15,332 INFO release-upgrader version '18.10.11.1' started
2018-11-07 22:05:15,361 INFO locale: 'en_GB' 'UTF-8'
2018-11-07 22:05:15,473 WARNING estimate_kernel_initrd_size_in_boot() returned '0' for kernel?
2018-11-07 22:05:15,473 WARNING estimate_kernel_initrd_size_in_boot() returned '0' for initrd?
2018-11-07 22:05:15,664 DEBUG Using 'DistUpgradeViewText' view
2018-11-07 22:05:15,742 DEBUG enable dpkg --force-overwrite
2018-11-07 22:05:15,791 DEBUG creating statefile: '/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz'
2018-11-07 22:05:24,398 DEBUG lsb-release: 'bionic'
2018-11-07 22:05:24,399 DEBUG _pythonSymlinkCheck run
2018-11-07 22:05:24,401 DEBUG openCache()
2018-11-07 22:05:24,401 DEBUG No such plugin directory: ./plugins
2018-11-07 22:05:24,402 DEBUG plugins for condition 'PreCacheOpen' are '[]'
2018-11-07 22:05:24,402 DEBUG plugins for condition 'cosmicPreCacheOpen' are '[]'
2018-11-07 22:05:24,402 DEBUG plugins for condition 'from_bionicPreCacheOpen' are '[]'
2018-11-07 22:05:24,402 DEBUG quirks: running PreCacheOpen
2018-11-07 22:05:24,402 DEBUG running Quirks.PreCacheOpen
2018-11-07 22:05:25,256 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 61463
2018-11-07 22:05:25,257 DEBUG need_server_mode(): run in 'desktop' mode, (because of pkg 'ubuntu-desktop')
2018-11-07 22:05:25,257 DEBUG checkViewDepends()
2018-11-07 22:05:25,257 DEBUG running doUpdate() (showErrors=False)
2018-11-07 22:05:28,969 DEBUG openCache()
2018-11-07 22:05:29,759 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 61463
2018-11-07 22:05:29,760 DEBUG doPostInitialUpdate
2018-11-07 22:05:29,760 DEBUG plugins for condition 'PostInitialUpdate' are '[]'
2018-11-07 22:05:29,761 DEBUG plugins for condition 'cosmicPostInitialUpdate' are '[]'
2018-11-07 22:05:29,761 DEBUG plugins for condition 'from_bionicPostInitialUpdate' are '[]'
2018-11-07 22:05:29,761 DEBUG quirks: running cosmicPostInitialUpdate
2018-11-07 22:05:29,761 DEBUG running Quirks.cosmicPostInitialUpdate
2018-11-07 22:05:29,792 DEBUG abort called
2018-11-07 22:05:29,793 DEBUG openCache()
2018-11-07 22:05:30,639 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 61463

[CapinWinky]

Same problem, tried editing sources.list to replace xenial with bionic and do

sudo apt dist-upgrade

but that also failed

I've also had to do

sudo chmod 777 /var/cache/app-info/xapian/default -R

a lot for just regular apt commands and I don't know what that's about.

[jiceorange]

I'm seeing a similar problem. No errors, but the release upgrade stops shortly after starting and restores the orginal state.

I'm on Win 10 v 1809:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17763.292]

When I use the command: sudo do-release-upgrade, I see this output:

Reading cache
pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci
lspci: Cannot find any working access method.
Checking package manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [107 kB]
Fetched 107 kB in 6s (0 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Restoring original system state
Aborting
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
=== Command detached from window (Tue Feb  5 12:30:50 2019) ===

And, my main.log looks similar to the original poster.

[LaurentRDC]

I've been able to progress on this by uninstalling the "screen":

sudo apt-get remove screen

[CapinWinky]

I ended up installing the Ubuntu metro app and starting from scratch. I had the old style install in the lxss folder and simply couldn't get it to work.

[jiceorange]

I've got some more info and hope that someone can provide a hint. Based on an above comment about some of us having problems with apt-get update problems with the permission of /var/cache/app-info/xapian/default , I tried changing permissions before trying to update the release:

sudo chmod -R a+rX,u+w /var/cache/app-info/xapian/defaut

Now, I get a little further, but eventually run into the same errors with database permissions.
** (appstreamcli:1726): CRITICAL **: Error while moving old database out of the way.

Has anyone discovered the root cause of the permission problems that some of us experience? Is this WSL specific?

Reading cache
pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci
lspci: Cannot find any working access method.
Checking package manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB]
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [109 kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [107 kB]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [911 kB]
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages [613 kB]
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main Translation-en [367 kB]
Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main Translation-en [253 kB]
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [318 kB]
Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [67.9 kB]
Get:10 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main DEP-11 64x64 Icons [67.1 kB]
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main DEP-11 64x64 Icons [229 kB]
Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 Packages [422 kB]
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages [727 kB]
Get:14 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe Translation-en [168 kB]
Get:15 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [116 kB]
Get:16 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe DEP-11 64x64 Icons [173 kB]
Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe Translation-en [300 kB]
Get:18 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [2,464 B]
Get:19 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [252 kB]
Get:20 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe DEP-11 64x64 Icons [352 kB]
Get:21 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [5,956 B]
Get:22 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse DEP-11 64x64 Icons [14.3 kB]
Get:23 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [3,328 B]
Get:24 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [5,100 B]
Fetched 5,693 kB in 6s (582 kB/s)
** (appstreamcli:1573): CRITICAL **: Error while moving old database out of the way.
AppStream cache update failed.
** (appstreamcli:1630): CRITICAL **: Error while moving old database out of the way.
AppStream cache update failed.
** (appstreamcli:1678): CRITICAL **: Error while moving old database out of the way.
AppStream cache update failed.
** (appstreamcli:1726): CRITICAL **: Error while moving old database out of the way.
AppStream cache update failed.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Restoring original system state
Aborting
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
=== Command detached from window (Wed Feb  6 14:22:07 2019) === ```

[rbalint]

@jiceorange It seems to be WSL specific: #640 (comment)

[jiceorange]

Thanks. I saw that thread. But didn't pay attention to that comment. Seems a while ago. No solution yet?

[PeeJay]

FYI I just had the same problem updating 19.04 to 19.10 on a bare metal Ubuntu install. I tracked the problem down to snappy being corrupted. Even apt reinstall didn't fix it, I had to purge it and install it. Now install progresses normally.

[ebelfer2020]

Thanks, removing snapd worked.

[hakanai]

Fixed for me too. You'd hope they'd actually test the upgrade tool before release, but oh well.

[Mischala]

Can confirm removing snapd allowed me to upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04
not sure what snapd is up to, but it sure doesn't seem to like WSL2

[Dzonixy]

Worked for me too. Thanks!

[AleksandrHovhannisyan]

Can also confirm this is still working. I was on Ubuntu 18.04 and this helped me upgrade to 20. Thanks!

[therealkenc]

This one was a general Linux discussion a xenial upgrade rollback, which can happen for reasons, for which there isn't going to be any repro in this thread. Unrelated #640 became quiet many moons ago without any convincing explanation forthcoming as to what got better, but take the win.

[ghost]

Hope this helps someone else.

There may be additional info in /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log after the failure. I found this in mine:
DEBUG need_server_mode(): run in 'desktop' mode, (because of pkg 'ubuntu-desktop')

After removing ubuntu-desktop, the upgrade working smoothly, despite still getting the errors about /proc/bus/pci and lspci missing.

Don't ask why I had ubuntu-desktop installed on WSL in the first place.

[santoshpuranik]

Thanks! this helped me too! Wonder what goes wrong when ubuntu-desktop is installed, a more meaningful error message would be nice.

[dacid44]

I just had this same problem, removing ubuntu-desktop seems to have fixed it (upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04). As for why I don't know anything for certain, but I've had weirdness before with desktop environments requiring systemd (which isn't really a thing in WSL). That would be my guess but it's not really based on anything in particular.

[rcarmonad]

I have this issue, but run this #3489 (reply in thread) and works the upgrade

[ojnickel]

where should i remove ubuntu-desktop?

[lewisdonofrio]

terminal? apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop (but if your upgrading you might try to remove snapd and see if that helps?)

[lewisdonofrio]

I've used full xfce4 gui for almost 4 years now on my work machines and my daily driver....I have a strange "no ms store" corp locked down w10 install so I use command line to skip past doman group policy lockdowns...
https://tinyurl.com/donofriovines/photos/tech-2018/wsl1-and-windows10

[treysis]

I have the same problem trying to upgrade 20.04 to 20.10. None of the proposed solutions here worked. Weirdly I was able to upgrade another WSL1 Ubuntu install last weekend from 20.04 to 20.10 without problems.

[pramodhrachuri]

I found on reddit that snapd package can result in do-release-upgrade termination. After removing it everything works as it should.

Solved my problem. Thanks!

[martin-jorgensen]

sudo apt remove snapd solved the problem for me too

[slix]

Removing snapd worked for me on WSL1.

[grufield]

Removing snapd worked for me on WSL2 ubuntu 18.04

[SoniCoder]

removing snapd worked

[ojnickel]

i did b oth and they worked! thx!! Am Fr., 11. Juni 2021 um 16:32 Uhr schrieb Lewis L. Donofrio < ***@***.***>:

…

terminal? apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop (but if your upgrading you might try to remove snapd and see if that helps?) — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#3489 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AGEILYHVTDJZTEBWJJZBMODTSIM7DANCNFSM4RKT7ZOA> .

[uranusx86]

after remove screen and snapd package, I have successfully upgraded ubuntu 16 to 18.

[ggbong734]

Running sudo apt-get remove screen snapd and then sudo do-release-upgrade worked for me too. Upgraded my Ubuntu from 18.04 to the latest in WSL.

[GoncaloCoutinho]

This worked for me too! Thank you very much!

[noobmagnet]

after remove screen and snapd package, I have successfully upgraded ubuntu 16 to 18.

How did you figure this out? Mine is now working finally after removing only snapd so thank you for the solution!

[BacchusPlateau]

Thank you for this...could not get it to work until I stumbled upon this post.

[kczx3]

Does anyone actually know why removing of these is required?

[jjakob]

Had the same problem when trying to release-upgrade xenial to bionic on a bare metal Ubuntu install, not WSL. Purging snapd fixed it.

[GeoffreyEmerson]

Removing snapd caused some unexpected pain.

% sudo apt install snapd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  zenity | kdialog
E: Could not read response to hello message from hook [ ! -f /usr/bin/snap ] || /usr/bin/snap advise-snap --from-apt 2>/dev/null || true: Success
E: Could not read response to hello message from hook [ ! -f /usr/bin/snap ] || /usr/bin/snap advise-snap --from-apt 2>/dev/null || true: Success
%

Some apt commands break like this before doing anything.

After messing around trying to fix snapd and rebooting, for some reason the update command seems to now work.

[ghost]

See #4640 for fixes.

[GeoffreyEmerson]

Luckily the upgrade process fixed it, but thanks.