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I have executed do-release-upgrade on a 12.04 Ubuntu server system. The upgrade went fine, but the welcome screen still shows 14.04 instead of 14.04.1 (which I would expect). Looking at the lsb_release -a output, it shows the old version

 lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release:        14.04
Codename:       trusty

Going deeper I have checked the /etc/lsb-release file and investigated what version of base-files package (to which this file "belongs") is installed. I've found out that my version is 7.2ubuntu5 whereas in my opinion it should be 7.2ubuntu5.1 as this version has correct release identification in the /etc/lsb-release file (and other files).

I suppose that the new version should have come with the do-release-upgrade, but it didn't for some reason. Moreover, apt does not offer the newer version, I do not know why.

Any ideas what went wrong?

muru
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  • I'm sorry you are completely right here. The upgrade was from the 12.04 version and not 14.04 (I already changed it in the post). But why is the point release 14.04.1 not offered to me? – john Aug 16 '14 at 17:33
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    @john: Have you done a sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade? What about sudo apt-get dist-upgrade? – saiarcot895 Aug 16 '14 at 17:36
  • @saiarcot895, yes I did all of these, here just the result from the last two commands, it's always the same:

    apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

     – john Aug 16 '14 at 17:40
  • Open up /etc/apt/sources.list, and make sure that there is a line similar to deb http://ftp.utexas.edu/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main universe restricted multiverse The important thing here is the trusty-updates part. Replace the link with the appropriate mirror for you. After doing this, run the commands again. – saiarcot895 Aug 16 '14 at 17:45
  • This is something I've checked as first. I think my sources.list is fine. There are following entries:
    deb http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted
    deb-src http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted

    deb http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates universe

    deb-src http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates universe
    deb http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates multiverse
    deb-src http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates multiverse
     – john Aug 16 '14 at 17:47

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