do-release-upgrade (i368 system - Gnome) 12.04 -> 12.10

[amlost]

Most likely, I might be posting this in the wrong section. If so please do excuse me as I barely ever ask for help, and I could not trace the exact same error I encountered. I am using Vaio which only has Ubuntu 12.04 (all pre-installed Microsoft is deleted).
I found indeed that the settings were only to report LTS upgrades, which I changed to all upgrades. After this I found that I was late in updating to 12.10
I did (after several failures of trying to get the upgrade) make sure that all 3rd party software was/is turned off.
However still I get an error "Application do-release-upgrade has closed unexpectedly" when clicking on the tab "more information" it only shows 'ExecutionPath' and underneath /usr/bin/do-release-upgrade.
Unfortunately after sending in this bug report, I have not been able to continue, as by clicking on continue all upgrade related parts shut down. I have thus not been able to retrace more error information, nor have I found a way to upgrade.
I am curious as why the upgrade is so difficult, in comparison to what it used to be (been using since Heron Hardy, so a few years). Never had this kind of problem, and I am also nor a very technical person so I do not wish to change to another system as Ubuntu, unless it gets too complicated to solve this problem.


Amlost,

[ibjsb4]

Do it in terminal and see what kind of errors you get.


sudo do-release-upgrade

[amlost]

Than I get the following report;



root@myname-VPCEH3J1E:~# sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [198 B]
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,198 kB]
Fetched 1,198 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
authenticate 'quantal.tar.gz' against 'quantal.tar.gz.gpg'
extracting 'quantal.tar.gz'


Reading cache




A fatal error occurred


Please report this as a bug and include the files
/var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log and /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log in
your report. The upgrade has aborted.
Your original sources.list was saved in
/etc/apt/sources.list.distUpgrade.


Traceback (most recent call last):


File "/tmp/update-manager-PXY8hK/quantal", line 10, in <module>
sys.exit(main())


File "/tmp/update-manager-PXY8hK/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py",
line 237, in main
save_system_state(logdir)


File "/tmp/update-manager-PXY8hK/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py",
line 130, in save_system_state
scrub_sources=True)


File "/tmp/update-manager-PXY8hK/DistUpgrade/apt_clone.py", line 148,
in save_state
self._write_state_sources_list(tar, scrub_sources)


File "/tmp/update-manager-PXY8hK/DistUpgrade/apt_clone.py", line 235,
in _write_state_sources_list
"./etc/apt/sources.list.d/"+source)


File "/tmp/update-manager-PXY8hK/DistUpgrade/apt_clone.py", line 239,
in _add_file_to_tar_with_password_check
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w') as source_copy,
open(sources, 'r') as f:


IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory:
'/etc/apt/sources.list.d//eduke32'




root@myname-VPCEH3J1E:~#

[schragge]

It seems like /etc/apt/sources.list.d/eduke32 is a directory. There shouldn't be any directories under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ Please post the output of

ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

[amlost]

After deleting all that was there, using MC, I got;



root@xxx-VPCEH3J1E:~# root@xxx-VPCEH3J1E:~# ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
root@xxx-VPCEH3J1E:~#: command not found
root@xxx-VPCEH3J1E:~# total 28
The program 'total' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
apt-get install radiance
root@xxx-VPCEH3J1E:~# drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 31 2012 eduke32
drwxr-xr-x: command not found
root@xxx-VPCEH3J1E:~# -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 84 Mar 20 20:44 eduke32.list
-rw-r--r--: command not found
root@xxx-VPCEH3J1E:~# -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 84 Mar 20 20:44 eduke32.list.save
-rw-r--r--: command not found
root@xxx-VPCEH3J1E:~# -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167 Mar 20 20:44 jitsi.list
-rw-r--r--: command not found
root@xxx-VPCEH3J1E:~# -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165 Mar 20 20:44 jitsi.list.save
-rw-r--r--: command not found
root@xxx-VPCEH3J1E:~# -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 156 Mar 20 20:44 me-davidsansome-clementine-precise.list
-rw-r--r--: command not found
root@xxx-VPCEH3J1E:~# -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 156 Mar 20 20:44 me-davidsansome-clementine-precise.list.save
-rw-r--r--: command not found

[amlost]

Did an uninstall of Jitsi and Clementine. Through the software center.

[schragge]

Try
rm -r /etc/apt/sources.list.d/eduke32/