Upgrade from Dapper to Hardy fails on Sparc64

2008-11-30 19:32:10,551 DEBUG writing prereuists sources.list at: '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/prerequists-sources.dapper-ports.list'
2008-11-30 19:32:11,026 DEBUG adding '# sources.list fragment for pre-requists of arches living on ports.ubuntu.com
' prerequists
2008-11-30 19:32:11,027 DEBUG adding '# no mirror because there are no mirrors here
' prerequists
2008-11-30 19:32:11,028 DEBUG adding '# this is safe to remove after the upgrade
' prerequists
2008-11-30 19:32:11,029 DEBUG adding 'deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports dapper-backports main/debian-installer
' prerequists
2008-11-30 19:32:11,031 DEBUG running doUpdate() (showErrors=False)
2008-11-30 19:32:13,638 ERROR IOError/SystemError in cache.update(): 'Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/dapper-backports/main/debian-installer/binary-sparc/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
'. Retrying (currentRetry: 0)
2008-11-30 19:32:16,307 ERROR IOError/SystemError in cache.update(): 'Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/dapper-backports/main/debian-installer/binary-sparc/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
'. Retrying (currentRetry: 1)
2008-11-30 19:32:18,851 ERROR IOError/SystemError in cache.update(): 'Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/dapper-backports/main/debian-installer/binary-sparc/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
'. Retrying (currentRetry: 2)
2008-11-30 19:32:18,853 ERROR doUpdate() failed completely
2008-11-30 19:32:29,756 ERROR Can not find backport 'release-upgrader-apt'
2008-11-30 19:32:29,758 DEBUG writing prereuists sources.list at: '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/prerequists-sources.dapper-ports.list'
2008-11-30 19:32:30,235 DEBUG adding '# sources.list fragment for pre-requists of arches living on ports.ubuntu.com
' prerequists
2008-11-30 19:32:30,237 DEBUG adding '# no mirror because there are no mirrors here
' prerequists
2008-11-30 19:32:30,238 DEBUG adding '# this is safe to remove after the upgrade
' prerequists
2008-11-30 19:32:30,239 DEBUG adding 'deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports dapper-backports main/debian-installer
' prerequists
2008-11-30 19:32:30,241 DEBUG running doUpdate() (showErrors=False)
2008-11-30 19:32:32,909 ERROR IOError/SystemError in cache.update(): 'Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/dapper-backports/main/debian-installer/binary-sparc/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
'. Retrying (currentRetry: 0)
2008-11-30 19:32:35,460 ERROR IOError/SystemError in cache.update(): 'Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/dapper-backports/main/debian-installer/binary-sparc/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
'. Retrying (currentRetry: 1)
2008-11-30 19:32:37,920 ERROR IOError/SystemError in cache.update(): 'Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/dapper-backports/main/debian-installer/binary-sparc/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
'. Retrying (currentRetry: 2)
2008-11-30 19:32:37,922 ERROR doUpdate() failed completely
2008-11-30 19:32:49,288 ERROR Can not find backport 'release-upgrader-apt'
2008-11-30 19:32:49,290 WARNING no backport for 'release-upgrader-apt' found

Thanks for your report.

dapper-backport installer doesn't seem to be available for sparc. Could you please attach the file /var/log/apt/sources.list

Thanks.

Furthermore, the package seems to be available on the master mirror ( archive.ubuntu.com ) . Could you please try with the later instead of ports.ubuntu.com

Thanks.

Hum - my sources list doesn't include ports.ubunutu.com - this url seems to be hard-coded into the 'update-manager' installer?

sources.list:

# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe

Well, the transition to ports.ubuntu.com for sparc users as been made in Hardy but the mirror is obviously not updated accordingly.

Marking as triaged, and importance high because it will fail for sparc and ppc users.

For the sake of completeness, could you please add the log files from '/var/log/dist-upgrade/' to this bug report as separate attachments? Thanks in advance.

One more note. According to bug 239458 it should be fixed but apparently it is not. I'm marking this report as duplicate. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report.

Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.