No New Release Found ???

[Rick St. George]

Have Xubuntu v14.04 installed a HP Elitebook 6930, and recently saw an Upgrade to v16.04 is available. Chose not to at that time.

Today I ran the following in terminal;


lsb_release -a


Shows, "Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty".
So then I ran ...



sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo do-release-upgrade


And received -
"Check for new Ubuntu release ... No new release found"

That is strange ... What am I missing ? ? ?

:confused:

[1fallen]

Have you tried this yet?

sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
sudo do-release-upgrade
let us know..

[Rick St. George]

Have you tried this yet?

sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
sudo do-release-upgrade
let us know..

I get - "update manager core is already newest version".

[1fallen]

I get - "update manager core is already newest version".

Rick why is nothing just easy here?:D
Try this one

sudo update-manager -c

[Rick St. George]

I get Software Updater to come up and report - "The software on this computer is upto date".

Under Settings I have;

Ubuntu Software
___Canonical supported .. main
___Proprietary drivers
___Source code

Other software
___Canonical Partners
___Canonical Partners (source code)
___www.BitDefender (http://www.BitDefender) [just to show link]
___www.handbrake (http://www.handbrake)
___www.team-xbmc (http://www.team-xbmc)

Updates
___Important Updates
___Recommended Updates
___LTS versions

Authentication
[usual keys] ftpmaster; cdimage; packages@bitdefender

Still stumped .. what gives???

[1fallen]

That is a mystery??
One more to try....but be very very careful you see 16.04 Xenial and not 16.10 Yakkety

sudo do-release-upgrade -d
Oh make sure uninstall Proprietary drivers (Nividia) first...Unless it is Intel GPU then you are ok.

[Rick St. George]

No New Release Found ! ! !

WOW ...

[1fallen]

No New Release Found ! ! !

WOW ...
Wow is right? You do have a working internet connection right? (not being snarky here just checking)
This will do it...well at least it never fails me.
Do disable 3rd party ppa's first...you can change them later.

sudo sed -i 's/trusty/xenial/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
Followed by....and again check everything it reports to you, before proceeding.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reboot
If all goes well run again

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
If this dose not work...I'm simply out of ideas.

[Rick St. George]

You know, sometimes you feel like an eagle, other times like a duck. Just to be sure - I checked my connection. Lo and behold, it was loose at the back of my Router. And since my Title Bar is hidden, I did not notice there apparently was not a connection last night.

Sorry guys ... my mistake! Let that be a LESSON ... Always check the obvious first and follow proper procedures for troubleshooting.

Thanks! Case closed.
Rick

[1fallen]

Good Job... thought that something like that was the case...it happens to all of us at some point.
Cheers