How to recover interrupted do-release-upgrade?

Cianotico

5/15/24, 11:50 PM

I am running Ubuntu 20.04, I wanted to upgrade to 22 using do-release-upgrade. I started the process but the download was very slow. So, at about 5% of the download phase I interrupted the process to change mirrors. I thought it would be fine to interrupt the process and run it again to resume it. The download was at like 5%, so I thought it was just downloading the new packages, but now if I run apt list I see some installed packages with focal tag, so maybe some things were already installed after all.

Now if I run do-release-upgrade it just says:

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

lsb_release -a still says I'm on 20.04:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
Release:        20.04
Codename:       focal

I see that /etc/apt/sources.list points to jammy repositories, so I guess that's why do-release-upgrade asks me to download "all the available updates".

I have seen answers to similar questions saying that the user should revert the /etc/apt/sources.list to the old version (in my case that would be to focal repositories), then run do-release-upgrade again, but I don't want to break everything, so I'm asking here to be sure.

What should I do?

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Janne Jokitalo

5/16/24, 11:26 AM

As package manager is already in the jammy repositories, you cannot do the release upgrade anymore, but rather just upgrade all the packages themselves.

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

...should do the trick.

I had a flawed USB wifi stick in my desktop machine while doing this, and the connection would drop a few times over the upgrade process. But eventually it all went just fine with the above method.

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