[RESOLVED] Unable to upgrade past 24.10

[pompeyrodney]

My system

Operating System: Kubuntu 24.10
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.6.0
Qt Version: 6.6.2
Kernel Version: 6.11.0-29-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i3 CPU M 370 @ 2.40GHz
Memory: 3.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International
Product Name: Calpella platform
System Version: Ver.001​

[B]Output of inxi -F[/B]
System:
Host: Kube Kernel: 6.11.0-29-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.5 Distro: Kubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Micro-Star product: Calpella platform v: Ver.001
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Micro-Star model: N/A v: Ver.001 serial: <superuser required>
BIOS: American Megatrends v: E1681IG6 VER.109 date: 07/21/2010
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 34.0 Wh (95.0%) condition: 35.8/48.8 Wh (73.3%)
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core i3 M 370 bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
L2: 512 KiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1188 min/max: 933/2399 cores: 1: 933 2: 1464 3: 1425
4: 933
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.2
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
dri: crocus gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: crocus,swrast
platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 2.1 vendor: intel mesa
v: 24.2.8-1ubuntu1~24.10.1 renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics (ILK)
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.290 drivers: N/A surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
API: ALSA v: k6.11.0-29-generic status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.4 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlp5s0 state: up mac: 00:24:d7:7e:ac:98
Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169
IF: enp6s0 state: down mac: 40:61:86:ba:f6:74
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 223.57 GiB used: 25.74 GiB (11.5%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37240G size: 223.57 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 123.18 GiB used: 25.73 GiB (20.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 512 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 4.02 GiB used: 512 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 4 GiB note: est. available: 3.62 GiB used: 2.02 GiB (55.9%)
Processes: 210 Uptime: 19m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.35

I am being told that an upgrade is available, but when clicking the icon, I am told the upgrade failed with an output that shows nothing in the resultant window. If I run

do-release-upgrade

Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.

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I should point out that all updates that can be installed are installed.

I would really appreciate any help offered, many thanks.

[claydoh]

Double-check that you really do have all updates installed, particularly any 'phased' updates, or anything being held. There shouldn't be any phased updates, on an End of Life release, but still worth checking:

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade

Look for messaging about held of phased packages.

Now, do you have any PPAs in use? These can block upgrades and cause this sort of problem, especially driver or other system, level addition. In aprticular, anything that provides packages that are *newer* than what is in 25.04.


EDIT;
Nope, Oracular's repo archive has not moved to old-releases.ubuntu.com just yet. But 24.10 IS EOL.
Ignore the content below, for the time being.

You *should* see warnings/errors running apt-update as 24.10's archive has been mothballed, since it became EOL ~three weeks ago. There are no files there, though it looks like the basic directory structure and release informational files may still be there.

Now it is possible to try the upgrade, which will most likely take some editing of a file.

We will use the EOL Upgrades docs as a template. The content is old, but the process has not changed, though the file used has.


Open the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources.

Edit the line that has:

URIs: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu

and change it to:

URIs: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu

Save the file, and check for updates again.

Now, try the upgrade process once more. Just having an archive for 24.10 present and enabled on your system should be enough to allow the upgrade to proceed.

[pompeyrodney]

Output of sudo apt update

Hit:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oracular InRelease
Hit:2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oracular-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oracular-backports InRelease    
Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oracular-security InRelease        
1 package can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see it.
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out of apt list --upgradeable

libcanberra-pulse/oracular 0.30-17ubuntu1 amd64 [upgradable from: 0.30-10ubuntu10]
Notice: There is 1 additional version. Please use the '-a' switch to see it
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output of apt list --upgradeable -a

libcanberra-pulse/oracular 0.30-17ubuntu1 amd64 [upgradable from: 0.30-10ubuntu10]
libcanberra-pulse/now 0.30-10ubuntu10 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 0.30-17ubuntu1]

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output of sudo apt full-upgrade

Not upgrading:                  
  libcanberra-pulse

Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 1
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output of do-release-upgrade

Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.
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Thanks for your help Claydoh

[Snowhog]

What is the output of running sudo apt install --simulate --only-upgrade libcanberra-pulse

[pompeyrodney]

sudo apt install --simulate --only-upgrade libcanberra-pulse
[sudo] password for julian:

Upgrading:                      
  libcanberra-pulse

Installing dependencies:
  libcanberra0

REMOVING:
  libcanberra0t64

Summary:
  Upgrading: 1, Installing: 1, Removing: 1, Not Upgrading: 0
Inst libcanberra-pulse [0.30-10ubuntu10] (0.30-17ubuntu1 Ubuntu:24.10/oracular [amd64]) []
Remv libcanberra0t64 [0.30-10ubuntu10] [plasma-workspace:amd64 libkf6notifyconfig6:amd64 libkf5notifyconfig5:amd64 libkf6notifications6:amd64 plasma-pa:amd64 libkf5notifications5:amd64 plasma-desktop:amd64 ]
Inst libcanberra0 (0.30-17ubuntu1 Ubuntu:24.10/oracular [amd64])
Conf libcanberra-pulse (0.30-17ubuntu1 Ubuntu:24.10/oracular [amd64])
Conf libcanberra0 (0.30-17ubuntu1 Ubuntu:24.10/oracular [amd64])
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[claydoh]

libcanberra0t64

This is a stray 24.04 package with the t64 fixes, later releases don't have the t64 suffix

[plasma-workspace:amd64 libkf6notifyconfig6:amd64 libkf5notifyconfig5:amd64 libkf6notifications6:amd64 plasma-pa:amd64 libkf5notifications5:amd64 plasma-desktop:amd64 ]

Most of these are Plasma5 and plasma 6 variants of the same package, but are both usually installed -- there are still some Plasma 5 applications around that need this sort of thing.
The other ones are meta-packages that just define a set of dependencies, and in themselves have no other functions.


I have no idea if this means these packages in the brackets get removed or not. I suspect not, but libcanberra0t64 IS safe to remove, in theory, as this Noble package is being replaced with the correct package name libcanberra0 for 24.10. Now, this 24.10 package should have caused the 24.04 one to be uninstalled, but this obviously did not happen.

I think myself that doing this without simulation will be fine, as it does fix the dependencies, as long as nothing else is actually removed.

[pompeyrodney]

Thanks Claydoh, I will do the update without simulation and report back the results. I will also try to then run the release upgrade again.

[pompeyrodney]

Upgrading:                      
  libcanberra-pulse

Installing dependencies:
  libcanberra0

REMOVING:
  libcanberra0t64

Summary:
  Upgrading: 1, Installing: 1, Removing: 1, Not Upgrading: 0
  Download size: 52.8 kB
  Space needed: 2,048 B / 105 GB available

Continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oracular/main amd64 libcanberra-pulse amd64 0.30-17ubuntu1 [12.2 kB]
Get:2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oracular/main amd64 libcanberra0 amd64 0.30-17ubuntu1 [40.5 kB]
Fetched 52.8 kB in 0s (414 kB/s)        
(Reading database ... 258048 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libcanberra-pulse_0.30-17ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libcanberra-pulse:amd64 (0.30-17ubuntu1) over (0.30-10ubuntu10) ...
dpkg: libcanberra0t64:amd64: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
 libkf5notifyconfig5:amd64 depends on libcanberra0t64 (>= 0.2).
 libkf5notifications5:amd64 depends on libcanberra0t64 (>= 0.2).
 plasma-workspace depends on libcanberra0 (>= 0.2); however:
  Package libcanberra0 is not installed.
  Package libcanberra0t64:amd64 which provides libcanberra0 is to be removed.
 plasma-pa depends on libcanberra0 (>= 0.16); however:
  Package libcanberra0 is not installed.
  Package libcanberra0t64:amd64 which provides libcanberra0 is to be removed.
 plasma-desktop depends on libcanberra0 (>= 0.2); however:
  Package libcanberra0 is not installed.
  Package libcanberra0t64:amd64 which provides libcanberra0 is to be removed.
 libkf6notifyconfig6:amd64 depends on libcanberra0 (>= 0.2); however:
  Package libcanberra0 is not installed.
  Package libcanberra0t64:amd64 which provides libcanberra0 is to be removed.
 libkf6notifications6:amd64 depends on libcanberra0 (>= 0.2); however:
  Package libcanberra0 is not installed.
  Package libcanberra0t64:amd64 which provides libcanberra0 is to be removed.
 libcanberra-pulse:amd64 depends on libcanberra0 (= 0.30-17ubuntu1); however:
  Package libcanberra0 is not installed.
  Package libcanberra0t64:amd64 which provides libcanberra0 is to be removed.

(Reading database ... 258048 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libcanberra0t64:amd64 (0.30-10ubuntu10) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libcanberra0:amd64.
(Reading database ... 258039 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libcanberra0_0.30-17ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libcanberra0:amd64 (0.30-17ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libcanberra0:amd64 (0.30-17ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libcanberra-pulse:amd64 (0.30-17ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.40-1ubuntu3.1) ...
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This has now allowed the release upgrade to go ahead so a big thank you to Snowhog and yourself.