Ubuntu stops update to 24.04.1 after user problems
Ubuntu has stopped the update to point release 24.04.1. Users have previously experienced problems with the update.
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The upgrade to Ubuntu's Point release 24.04.1 has been stopped. Users are reporting problems with the update process, which the maintainers have now confirmed and want to correct first.
On Thursday last week, Canonical employee Utkarsh Gupta confirmed on the Ubuntu release mailing list that the upgrade had been stopped due to a critical bug. "The upgrade has been halted due to a critical bug in the Ubuntu release upgrader in the way it handles the apt solver". This is being worked on and as soon as it is corrected, Ubuntu will reactivate the upgrades. At the time of reporting, the correction is apparently not yet available, as the meta-release-lts 24.04.1 upgrade file, which Ubuntu uses to search for updates, still does not appear again.
Network and other problems with the upgrade
On reddit, for example, those affected reported that the DNS resolution initially appeared to fail during the upgrade process. It turned out that the network interface had been lost. After a manual entry in the file /etc/network/interfaces, it was accessible again and the further repair – "ubuntu desktop" had to be installed so that a desktop environment could be started again – and updating was possible.
Similar experiences were also reported by users in the askubuntu forum. However, there was apparently even greater version chaos there. In one specific case, components from Ubuntu releases 21.10, 22.04 and 24.04 were present on the system. The Canonical employee's explanation that the problem-solving functions (solver) of apt were not used correctly could be consistent with such symptoms.
Until a corrected upgrade routine is available, Ubuntu users should not force the update in any other way. However, this should be available shortly.
Ubuntu 24.04 was released in April and is marked as a stable version with long-term support (LTS). Regular Ubuntu users will receive five years of support, paying Ubuntu Pro customers will even be provided with updates for twelve years.
(dmk)
