check-new-release-gtk tells i386 users Ubuntu 20.04.1 is available

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I reported I saw this message on a QA-test (18.04.5) Lubuntu install (pentium 4 box so x86 only) booted for support purposes .. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1845690/comments/13

I use an old thinkpad (t43; pentium M x86 only) which runs Lubuntu 18.04 LTS (older install, initially 16.04) to listen to podcasts; the upgrade message has appeared there too.

Users are still seeing this, eg. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1289286/upgrading-with-1386architecture (yesterday though user is non-technical & vague)

(though the number of users reporting it aren't great, likely less than one a week that I see)

Message (upgrade to 20.04 is available) is still occurring on i386 Thinkpad t43 running Lubuntu 18.04... I still see occasional report by end-user on support sites (again few in number, 2-3 a week maybe)

It isn't necessary to fix this in hirsute but it seemed worth commiting anyway rather than losing the code in case we drop another architecture.

https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-upgrader/commit/?id=1204d1345267a7e5e677250f49e5774bc044c873

Hello Brian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubuntu-release-upgrader into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/1:18.04.42 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Attached is a screenshot which illustrates the verification of the check-new-release-gtk output.

Attached is a screenshot which illustrates the verification of the update-manager output.

Just wanted to add that this affected me also. I've been aware for many months that support for 32-bit Ubuntu has been dropped. So, I was surprised when I started up this system I use only for backups to see the following message on the console:

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New release '20.04.1 LTS' available.
Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.
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Running do-release-upgrade produces:

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Sorry, no more upgrades for this system

There will not be any further Ubundo-release-upgradetu releases for this system's
'i386' architecture.

Updates for Ubuntu 18.04 will continue until April 2023.
=====

Seems odd to get a message telling me to perform an upgrade, then when doing that, to be told no upgrade is available. Why not just display the second message initially and save me the trip through do-release-upgrade?

The verification of the Stable Release Update for ubuntu-release-upgrader has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-release-upgrader - 1:18.04.42

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ubuntu-release-upgrader (1:18.04.42) bionic; urgency=medium

  * check-new-release, check-new-release-gtk: Do not indicate that a release
    upgrade is available for systems that are running on i386 architecture.
    (LP: #1901725)

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:09:46 -0800