Issues while upgrading from 18.10 to 19.04

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I'm trying to upgrade Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) to Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) and have tried the below steps:

nagadeep@MachineName:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for nagadeep:
Hit:1 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Ign:2 https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu bionic/mongodb-org/4.0 InRelease
Hit:3 https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu bionic/mongodb-org/4.0 Release
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-security InRelease [97.5 kB]
Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco InRelease
Hit:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/longsleep/golang-backports/ubuntu disco InRelease
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-updates InRelease [97.5 kB]
Hit:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/longsleep/golang-backports/ubuntu cosmic InRelease
Ign:10 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable InRelease
Hit:11 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable Release
Hit:12 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-security InRelease
Hit:15 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic InRelease
Hit:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-updates InRelease
Hit:14 https://packagecloud.io/slacktechnologies/slack/debian jessie InRelease
Fetched 195 kB in 2s (78.6 kB/s) Reading package lists...
Done
W: Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/longsleep-ubuntu-golang-backports-cosmic.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/longsleep-ubuntu-golang-backports-cosmic.list:3
W: Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/longsleep-ubuntu-golang-backports-cosmic.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/longsleep-ubuntu-golang-backports-cosmic.list:3 nagadeep@MachineName:~$

Running sudo apt-get dist-upgrade returns the below:

nagadeep@MachineName:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  accountsservice acl acpi-support acpid adduser adwaita-icon-theme aisleriot alsa-utils amd64-microcode anacron app-install-data-partner
  apparmor apport apport-gtk apport-symptoms appstream apt apt-config-icons apt-utils aptdaemon aptdaemon-data aptitude aptitude-common apturl
  apturl-common aspell at-spi2-core avahi-autoipd avahi-daemon avahi-utils baobab base-files base-passwd bash bc bind9-host binfmt-support
  binutils binutils-common binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu bleachbit bluez bluez-cups bluez-obexd bolt brltty bsdutils bubblewrap build-essential
  busybox-initramfs busybox-static bzip2 ca-certificates ca-certificates-java cabextract cheese cheese-common chrome-gnome-shell
  chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra colord colord-data console-setup console-setup-linux coreutils cpp cpp-8 cracklib-runtime cups cups-browsed
  cups-bsd cups-client cups-common cups-core-drivers cups-daemon cups-filters cups-filters-core-drivers cups-ipp-utils cups-ppdc
  cups-server-common dash dbus dbus-user-session dbus-x11 dc dconf-cli dconf-gsettings-backend dconf-service debconf debconf-i18n debianutils
  default-jdk default-jdk-headless default-jre default-jre-headless deja-dup desktop-file-utils dictionaries-common diffstat diffutils dirmngr
  distro-info-data dmidecode dmsetup dns-root-data dnsmasq-base dnsutils dpkg dpkg-dev e2fsprogs ed enchant eog espeak-ng-data evince
  evince-common evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common fakeroot fdisk file file-roller findutils firefox firefox-locale-en
  firefox-locale-kn fontconfig fontconfig-config fonts-freefont-ttf fonts-gujr fonts-gujr-extra fonts-indic fonts-liberation fonts-liberation2
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0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1496 not upgraded.

I tried the options suggested in “The following packages have been kept back:” Why and how do I solve it?, How can I fix apt error “W: Target Packages … is configured multiple times”?, I am trying to upgrade from ubuntu 18.10 to 19.04, and am unable to, and few more links.

A similar message (0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1496 not upgraded.) is seen when I try using other commands. Is there a way this can be overcome and the upgrade be executed?

Answer 1

After quite a bit of effort I was able to fix this issue. Here's what I tried.

1. I updated the sources to a single release, in my case it was to Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish).
2. Subsequently I resolved the second part of the issue by marking the held packages as unhold (sudo apt-mark unhold <package-name>). Note that multiple names for package-name can be separated by spaces, but not newline characters.

3. Next I executed the below commands

       sudo apt-get update
       sudo apt-get upgrade
       sudo do-release-upgrade
   

   All the steps ran smoothly and finally I was able to upgrade successfully to Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo). Please restart Ubuntu whenever prompted during the above steps.