Ubuntu
update-manager package

failed to do /cdromupgrade on a 7.10 server.

Bug #222895 reported by Pan, SZ on 2008-04-27

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Michael Vogt
	Hardy	Fix Released	Undecided	Michael Vogt	Ubuntu ubuntu-8.04.1

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

TEST CASE:
1. install gutsy server
2. insert a 8.04 alternate server CD
3. mount /cdrom
4. sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade
5. watch it fail

6. umount /cdrom
6. get a new daily alternate 8.04.1 server CD
7. repeat step 3, 4
8. watch is succeed

downloaded 8.04-server-i386 cd image, mount it on a 7.10 server and run sudo /cdrom/cdromupgrade.
It seems that the upgrade does not support ubuntu-server?

--- This is the message given by cdromupgrade:
A unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

This can be caused by:
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu

If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the
'update-manager' package and include the files in
/var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport.

--- this is the result of tail /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log:
Can't guess meta-package

Your system does not contain a ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop,
xubuntu-desktop or edubuntu-desktop package and it was not possible
to detect which version of Ubuntu you are running.
Please install one of the packages above first using synaptic or
apt-get before proceeding.

Log time: 2008-04-27 11:25:26.289873

--- this is the result of tail /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log:
2008-04-27 11:25:17,452 DEBUG none of the '['ubuntu-desktop', 'kubuntu-desktop',
'edubuntu-desktop', 'xubuntu-desktop', 'ubuntustudio-desktop', 'ichthux-desktop
', 'mythbuntu-desktop', 'gobuntu-desktop']' meta-pkgs installed
2008-04-27 11:25:17,472 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'Can't upgrade required meta-
packages'

See original description

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Pan, SZ (pan.sz) wrote on 2008-04-27:

the tarball of /var/log/dist-upgrade directory Edit (4.5 KiB, application/x-tar)

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Wally Valters (wvalters) wrote on 2008-04-28:

Same issue here, cannot upgrade a machine without an installed desktop meta-package. You can workaround by using apt-cdrom then doing the network upgrade, but it would be nice to upgrade via the cd only then get the updates off the net that were needed.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2008-04-29:

Thanks for your bugreport.

The support for cdrom upgrade with the server CD needs work, I fixed that in bzr and it will be part of the next upload.

Changed in update-manager:
assignee:	nobody → mvo
milestone:	none → ubuntu-8.04.1
status:	New → Fix Committed

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2008-04-29:

Here is the diff for review by ubuntu-sru:

=== modified file 'DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py'
--- DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py 2008-04-29 08:15:28 +0000
+++ DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py 2008-04-29 13:01:28 +0000
@@ -139,6 +139,12 @@
         self.serverMode = False
         if self.options and self.options.mode == "server":
             self.serverMode = True
+ # if we upgrade from a server CD we run in server mode
+ if cdrompath:
+ p = os.path.join(cdrompath, ".disk","info")
+ if (os.path.exists(p) and
+ open(p).readline().startswith("Ubuntu-Server ")):
+ self.serverMode = True

# the configuration
self.config = DistUpgradeConfig(datadir)

=== modified file 'DistUpgrade/cdromupgrade'
--- DistUpgrade/cdromupgrade 2008-02-29 22:24:31 +0000
+++ DistUpgrade/cdromupgrade 2008-04-29 13:08:57 +0000
@@ -29,4 +29,4 @@
echo "Could not find the upgrade application in the archive, exiting"
exit 1
fi
-$TMPDIR/$CODENAME --cdrom "$cddirname"
+$TMPDIR/$CODENAME --cdrom "$cddirname" $@

=== modified file 'debian/changelog'
--- debian/changelog 2008-04-29 10:51:24 +0000
+++ debian/changelog 2008-04-29 13:09:40 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+update-manager (1:0.87.26) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
+
+ * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py:
+ - run in server mode on a server CD (LP: #222895)
+ * DistUpgrade/cdromupgrade:
+ - allow passing of arguments (like --mode=server)
+ to better support server upgrades with the dvd
+ (LP: #222895)
+
+ --
+
update-manager (1:0.87.25) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

* DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeApport.py:

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2008-04-29:

Ack for hardy-proposed, please upload.

Steve Langasek (vorlon) on 2008-05-03

Changed in update-manager:
status:	New → Triaged

Michael Vogt (mvo) on 2008-05-06

description:

updated

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2008-05-14:

Although not all fixed bugs have been verified, four tests from Brian showed that update-manager is still able to upgrade from dapper and gutsy, and fixed some bugs. Due to the urgency of some bugs I have copied this to hardy-updates now.