Submitted by ggarron on Thu, 09/06/2007 - 16:49
If you are getting these errors while upgrading to Gutsy Gibbon.
warning: could not initiate dbus
current dist not found in meta-release
Edit this file:
sudo vim /var/lib/update-manager/meta-release
And be sure you have this content inside
Update 09/23/07, thanks to Patrick and Projekt Enterprises, who let me know there is a problem copying and pasting the content below, you can now get the .txt file from here, thanks Patric, for helping all of us to upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy.
Dist: warty Name: Warty Warthog Version: 04.10 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:28:17 UTC Supported: 0 Description: This is the warty warthog release Release-File: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/warty/Release Dist: hoary Name: Hoary Hedgehog Version: 05.04 Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 08:18:19 UTC Supported: 0 Description: This is the Hoary Hedgehog release Release-File: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary/Release Dist: breezy Name: Breezy Badger Version: 05.10 Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:34:42 UTC Supported: 0 Description: This is the Breezy Badger release Release-File: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/Release Dist: dapper Name: Dapper Drake Version: 6.06 LTS Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 9:00:00 UTC Supported: 1 Description: This is the Dapper Drake release Release-File: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/Release ReleaseNotes: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/DapperReleaseAnnouncement UpgradeTool: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/dist-upgrader-all/cur... UpgradeToolSignature: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/dist-upgrader-all/cur... Dist: edgy Name: Edgy Eft Version: 6.10 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:00:00 UTC Supported: 1 Description: This is the Edgy Eft release Release-File: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/edgy/Release ReleaseNotes: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/EdgyReleaseAnnouncement UpgradeTool: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/edgy-updates/main/dist-upgrader-a... UpgradeToolSignature: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/edgy-updates/main/dist-upgrader-a... Dist: feisty Name: Feisty Fawn Version: 7.04 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:00:00 +0200 Supported: 1 Description: This is the 7.04 release Release-File: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/Release ReleaseNotes: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-proposed/main/dist-upgrade... UpgradeTool: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-proposed/main/dist-upgrade... UpgradeToolSignature: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-proposed/main/dist-upgrade... Dist: gutsy Name: Gutsy Gibbon Version: 7.10 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:00:00 UTC Supported: 0 Description: This is the 7.10 release Release-File: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/Release ReleaseNotes: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/dist-upgrader-all/curr... UpgradeTool: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/dist-upgrader-all/curr... UpgradeToolSignature: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/dist-upgrader-all/curr...
After that, enter these command to upgrade.
gksudo "update-manager -c -d"
It should work this time, at least this was the solution for me.
Thanks for the advice. Worked a treat. Thanks to patrick too.
They should name the next release 'Ubuntu 7.10 - Guillermo Garron'
Hey Thanks! for the comment!
:)
Guillermo Garron
This fixed the problems for me, but you may want to update your text some. The http links are all chopped of at the end, requiring a view source to see what the actual links should be. A little regex fu worked fine for fixing everything.
I posted a fixed version here: http://www.projektenterprises.com/?p=13
Thank you very much, I will add a text file that everybody will be able to download with the right data.
Guillermo Garron
Sorry I did not understand you, could you please explain me a little more?
Guillermo Garron
Just do the following suckas:
sudo sed -e 's/\sfeisty/ gutsy/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Although that might work it is officially not recommended. The update-manager does some additional clever work to ensure the update does not fail.
Thanks, these commands worked great! :)
OK it worked like charm but, where did you get it?