autoremove doesn't do the trick. ==
$ sudo apt-get autoremove [sudo] password for russell: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. == Removing emacs24-lucid directly allows do-release-upgrade to work. Neat! That error message should probably be amended to point users to log files in /var/log/dist-upgrade. I've been using Debian-based distros since before Ubuntu existed, and I had no idea it existed! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1798729 Title: release upgrade from 18.04 to 18.10 cannot calculate upgrade, no reason given To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1798729/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs