Ubuntu
update-manager package

Fatal error on upgrade - NoSectionError Distro

Bug #49489 reported by Judy Bennett
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update-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I used the Synaptic Package Manager to upgrade my DELL Inspiron B130 laptop from Breezy to Dapper. It went for quite a while, then broke with this error:

A fatal error occured.
Please report this as a bug and include the files /var/log/dist-upgrade.log and / var/log/dist-upgrade-apt.log in your report. The upgrade aborts now.
Your original sources.list was saved in /etc/apt/sources.list.distUpgrade.

Traceback (most recent call last):
...
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 511, in get
raise NoSectionError(section)
NoSectionError: no section: 'Distro'

The laptop boots, but clearly something went wrong. I now have an upgrade CD to use. I'm happy to provide the files mentioned above, but cannot until I get a network connection working (ethernet or wireless). When I click the wlan0 connection in the top menu bar, I get this error: SIOCGIFFLAGS error: no such device.

What does 'Distro' mean and how can I fix it?
What do I do with the original sources.list file?
What should be my next step? Repeat the upgrade from CD?

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Judy Bennett (adamjudy) wrote :
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I've got a network connection now. Here are the files.
-----------------------------------
/var/log/dist-upgrade.log
-----------------------------------
2006-06-09 09:31:33,112 DEBUG Foreign:
2006-06-09 09:31:33,112 DEBUG Obsolete: skype
2006-06-09 09:31:33,113 DEBUG updateSourcesList()
2006-06-09 09:31:33,116 DEBUG rewriteSourcesList()
2006-06-09 09:31:33,117 DEBUG examining: 'deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted'
2006-06-09 09:31:33,117 DEBUG entry '
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted' updated to new dist
2006-06-09 09:31:33,117 DEBUG examining: 'deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted'
2006-06-09 09:31:33,117 DEBUG entry 'deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted' updated to new dist
2006-06-09 09:31:33,117 DEBUG examining: 'deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted'
2006-06-09 09:31:33,118 DEBUG entry 'deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted' updated to new dist
2006-06-09 09:31:33,118 DEBUG examining: 'deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted'
2006-06-09 09:31:33,118 DEBUG entry 'deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted' updated to new dist
2006-06-09 09:31:33,118 DEBUG examining: 'deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe'
2006-06-09 09:31:33,118 DEBUG entry 'deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe' updated to new dist
2006-06-09 09:31:33,118 DEBUG examining: 'deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe'
2006-06-09 09:31:33,119 DEBUG entry 'deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe' updated to new dist
2006-06-09 09:31:33,119 DEBUG examining: 'deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse'
2006-06-09 09:31:33,119 DEBUG entry 'deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse' updated to new dist
2006-06-09 09:31:33,119 DEBUG examining: 'deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse'
2006-06-09 09:31:33,119 DEBUG entry 'deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse' updated to new dist
2006-06-09 09:31:33,119 DEBUG examining: 'deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted'
2006-06-09 09:31:33,120 DEBUG entry 'deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted' updated to new dist
2006-06-09 09:31:33,120 DEBUG examining: 'deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted'
2006-06-09 09:31:33,120 DEBUG entry 'deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted' updated to new dist
2006-06-09 09:31:33,120 DEBUG examining: 'deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe'
2006-06-09 09:31:33,120 DEBUG entry 'deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe' updated to new dist
2006-06-09 09:31:33,120 DEBUG examining: 'deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe'
2006-06-09 09:31:33,121 DEBU...

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William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

Can you please attach the file mentioned at the end of the error message, /etc/apt/sources.list.distUpgrade, using the 'Add Attachment' link on the navigation bar on the left.

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Judy Bennett (adamjudy) wrote : sources.list.distUpgrade

Here (attached) is the file mentioned at the end of the error message.

Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)
Changed in update-manager:
assignee: nobody → mvo
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Paul Dufresne (paulduf) wrote :

Thanks for giving the requested files!
Confirming.

Changed in update-manager:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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to be removed (liw) wrote :

I attempted to reproduce this, but it now seems impossible to upgrade from breezy to dapper (under kvm). Since breezy is now also quite unsupported, I wonder if it might not be OK to just close this bug, since it doesn't seem to affect upgrades from later versions of Ubuntu?

Michael, what do you think?

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to be removed (liw) wrote :

Michael agreed that this bug can be closed. I apologise for using the "invalid" state, but Launchpad has no better one (it needs an "obsolete" state). Summary: bug occurred during breezy-dapper upgrade, never again since, and can't be reproduced anymore. Judy, if you think we should keep this open, please re-open or ask me to do so.

Changed in update-manager:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
assignee: mvo → nobody
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