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. by Antony Jones (not verified)
Hey Thanks! for the by ggarron
This fixed the problems for by patrick (not verified)
I posted a fixed version by Projekt Enterprises (not verified)
Thank you very much, I will by ggarron
Sorry I did not understand by ggarron
Just do the following by Anonymous (not verified)
Although that might work it by Kai (not verified)
Thanks, these commands by Karenfleur (not verified)
OK it worked like charm but, by Schlomo (not verified)
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