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Every time I reboot my fully updated laptop running Ubuntu 14.04 amd64 I am greeted with this dialogue window at login:

Ubuntu 15.04 Upgrade Available Dialogue Window

When I press the "Yes, Upgrade Now" button I see this very promising dialogue:

Release Notes: Welcome to Ubuntu 15.04 'Vivid Vervet'

EDIT: This is not a promising dialogue after all! The suggested upgrade path 14.04 -> 15.04 is not possible. Instead it should suggest 14.10 or next LTS. Please see the bug that I posted about this here.

But when I press the "Upgrade" button and type in my password I see this:

Failed to fetch: Fetching the upgrade failed. There may be a network problem.

I can with 100% confidence say that there is no network problem (I am listening to an internet radio station while writing this in my browser).

So I decided to see if I could coax out some more meaningful error messages by running the upgrade again using commandline. I open a terminal and run the command sudo do-release-upgrade. I get the following log:

lennart@katana:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade 
[sudo] password for lennart: 
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Err Upgrade tool signature                                                     
  403  Sorry, not allowed to fetch that type of file: vivid.tar.gz.gpg         
Err Upgrade tool                                                               
  403  Sorry, not allowed to fetch that type of file: vivid.tar.gz             
Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)                                                      
WARNING:root:file 'vivid.tar.gz.gpg' missing
Failed to fetch
Fetching the upgrade failed. There may be a network problem. 
lennart@katana:~$

So now I am stumped. Is there no way for me to perform this upgrade? Where should I look for ways to proceed or troubleshoot this? I am quite fond of my current install, it is set up perfectly, and it is fairly cruft free. I really would like to preserve it if possible.

Any tips welcome. Thanks!

Mr. Developerdude
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It seems that my apt-cacher install was getting in the way.

I simply removed my /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01proxy, then proceeded to run 

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade

and finally when running

do-release-upgrade

it stopped whining about this:

403 Sorry, not allowed to fetch that type of file: vivid.tar.gz.gpg

NOTE: your proxy settings might be different than mine. Look for the file inside /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ that contains the string proxy.

Mr. Developerdude
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