Upgrader Fails -- bug in updater or ppa-purge?

[BlackJar72]

The upgrader to 24.04 fails. It says I need to purge my ppa's with ppa-purge.

So I installed ppa-purge, and used the instructions here to get a list of ppa's and purge them, like so:

find /etc/apt/sources.list.d -type f -name "*.list" -print0 | while read -d $'\0' file; do awk -F/ '/deb / && /launchpad/ {print "sudo ppa-purge ppa:"$4"/"$5}' "$file"; done

which gives this list

sudo ppa-purge ppa:lutris-team/lutris
sudo ppa-purge ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair

Running those commands seems to work, but the list doesn't change, so they must not be deleted from the drive, though I don't know if they are being disabled in some other way.

The updater gives the same error and suggest I run "ubunutu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core" to report a possible bug (done).

However, I'm not sure if the problem is a bug in the updater or in ppa-purge, since I don't see direct evidence of the the later doing anything.

[GregM]

Hope you backed up your 22.04 before you tried the upgrade.
I did (thankfully) and this morning put the backup SSD in and am running on it now.

[BlackJar72]

So far I've given up on upgrading -- when the updates run out I'll just have to be extra careful, cross my fingers, and hope for the best, since the upgrader just won't work.

Perhaps I could install the new version fresh on a different partition entirely and reinstall things I separately? I think I left a couple partitions empty for such things. All my data is on a separate partitions.

Right now, though, I've given up on the upgrade entirely.

[claydoh]

Running those commands seems to work, but the list doesn't change, so they must not be deleted from the drive, though I don't know if they are being disabled in some other way.

Look at the files mentioned, the repos my simply be disabled -- a "#" at the beginning of a line 'comments it out" so it isn't read.
The upgrader would disable all PPAs anyway, and even other third party addon repos. Ones that are not PPAs hosted on Launchpad.

The ppa-purge tool also downgrades PPA packages back to stock versions. It cannot do so for non PPA repos iirc, and this is probably the actual issue, at least that is my thought, without seeing any exact messaging you see. You may have something installed that is already newer than what is in 24.04, which probably would break the upgrade anyway.

Perhaps I could install the new version fresh on a different partition entirely and reinstall things I separately?

That is a perfectly sound method.