Hello,
My KDE Neon installation today decided to upgrade itself to Ubuntu 19.10 underpinnings,
is this expected as I thought it would only go to the latest LTS release?
I haven't pulled the trigger on it yet as I would prefer to clarify first.

TIA
Steve

PS in case it helps

Operating System: KDE neon 5.17
KDE Plasma Version: 5.17.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.66.0
Qt Version: 5.13.2
Kernel Version: 5.3.0-28-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 8 × Intel® Xeon® CPU E5462 @ 2.80GHz
Memory: 23.5 GiB of RAM

This is NOT normal or expected. You are correct that Neon is LTS only, so doing the upgrade would make a fine mess, I imagine.

That's officially weird then.
Does anyone have any idea why?

I have only updated with Discover except for some packages which I applied from third party repos
to avoid using snaps or flatpacks ( I don't like them, sometimes they wont let me access my own files
and I don't have the time or inclination to work around that when alternatives are available).

At the very least, is there a way to make this

go away permanently?

Anxiously awaiting next updates (here and in Discover)
Steve

Check your software sources, you probably have a source in it for Ubuntu 19.10

OK, sorry about the images, but I couldn't find another way to list them that I entirely trusted.




Nothing in there is leaping out at me as being 19.10 related,
are any of the things that are there likely to have any malevolent side effects?

Possibly a combination of issues causing it.

- Ubuntu have just released new versions of their ubuntu-release-upgrader which supersede the Neon versions. That would mean that the upgrade checker could now be parsing the ubuntu release info url instead of the custom neon version.
- You may have your system wrongly set to 'normal' in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades instead of 'lts'

Those 2 together would cause what you see.

If this is the case, switching that release-upgrades file back to 'lts' should fix things until new Neon packages land.

We have a winner!

I saw the upgrader stuff in the updates and wondered what that was.
I have no idea how the update manager thingie got set to 'normal', this is the first time I ever saw that file.
I have changed it to 'lts' and everything looks fabulous again!

Thank you very much everybody, that was extremely impressive.
Steve

Good to hear.

Some of the gui tools available can change the release updates channel. For example in software properties.....

It took me a while to find that dialog, so I don't think I changed it before
and, of course, it says LTS releases only now.

I reckon if I had changed it, I would also have been tempted to tick some of the boxes at the top
under neon updates which are all clear at the moment.

However, today, I am mostly leaving things alone!

Thanks again