[SOLVED] Trouble upgrading 8.04 server to 8.10 server

[j3ff]

I am currently unable to upgrade my 8.04 server to an 8.10 server.
In short, after following the instructions at

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading#Network%20Upgrade%20for%20Ubuntu%20Serve rs%20(Recommended)

I see

Checking for a new ubuntu release
No new release found

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jeff

Here is a transcript of my terminal session:-

Confirm the identity of the distro and its version


jeff@meldte:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy


Check machine architecture

jeff@meldte:~$ uname -m
i686

Check kernel version

jeff@meldte:~$ uname -r
2.6.24-21-server

Make sure that the machine is currently up to date:-

jeff@meldte:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Translation-en_AU
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Translation-en_AU
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Translation-en_AU
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Translation-en_AU
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Sources
Ign http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Translation-en_AU
Ign http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Translation-en_AU
Ign http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Translation-en_AU
Ign http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Translation-en_AU
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Translation-en_AU
Ign http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Translation-en_AU
Ign http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Translation-en_AU
Ign http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Translation-en_AU
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Packages
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Sources
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Sources
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Sources
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Sources
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Sources
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Sources
Reading package lists... Done

Upgrade anything that is out of date. Nothing is.

jeff@meldte:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Step 1 of the official instructions ...

jeff@meldte:~$ sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
update-manager-core is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Confirmation that I did step 2 ...

jeff@meldte:~$ cat /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
# default behavior for the release upgrader
#

[DEFAULT]
# default prompting behavior, valid options:
# never - never prompt for a new distribution version
# normal - prompt if a new version of the distribution is available
# lts - prompt only if a LTS version of the distribution is available
Prompt=normal

Step 3 ...

jeff@meldte:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new ubuntu release
No new release found

and that's all she wrote.

[Coastal Confessions]

do-release-upgrade is working for me, but I'm using us.archive.ubuntu.com. Maybe it's just that your servers aren't up-to-date yet.

[Sherban]

I had the same problem... as every six months.

I am behind a proxy and setting the proxy information on command line solved this for me:

export http_proxy=http://user:passwd@proxy:port/
export ftp_proxy=http://user:passwd@proxy:port/

This should really be part of the update instructions...

[j3ff]

Thanks Coastal confessions and Sherban for your replies.

Sherban, your suggestion seems to have done the trick. The original 'hardy' installation asked for proxy details so I would not have thought of that.

Anyway, setting the http_proxy environment variable seems to have done the trick.

Thanks very much.