Upgrade from etch to lenny

[corge]

After having replaced all instances of "etch" to "lenny" in my sources.list file and executing apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade nothing happens.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I've also attempted merely "apt-get upgrade" with the same result.

apt-get update gives no errors and seems to work, but still no packages are installed, I'm seemingly still stuck with etch.

How can this issue be resolved?

[GNU-Fan]

Put the content of the source.list file here, please.

[corge]

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free

[devils casper]

Execute this

su -
apt-get clean all
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

[corge]

Execute this

su -
apt-get clean all
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

I have executed the specified commands, result:

x86-1# apt-get clean all
x86-1# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny Release             
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny/main Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny/non-free Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Sources
Fetched 2B in 1s (1B/s)  
Reading package lists... Done
x86-1# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
x86-1#

[devils casper]

Execute this

uname -a
cat /etc/debian-version

Post output here.

[corge]

Execute this

uname -a
cat /etc/debian-version

Post output here.

x86-1$ uname -a
Linux x86-1 2.6.18-6-k7 #1 SMP Mon Aug 18 09:20:26 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
x86-1$ cat /etc/debian_version 
4.0

As a sidenote, I've used apt-get and apt-cache a lot on this install, and they seemingly work perfectly fine for general use.
Thanks for the help too.

[corge]

Doesn't anyone have any ideas for this issue? Surely upgrading from etch to lenny shouldn't be that difficult?

[jledhead]

how about

apt-get install apt

to see if it will upgrade it

you could also try a different mirror, that one could be having problems

[corge]

how about

apt-get install apt

to see if it will upgrade it

you could also try a different mirror, that one could be having problems

I know the mirror works, because a different computer can use this mirror to do an upgrade from etch to lenny with no issues whatsoever.

This doesn't seem to do anything, sadly.

x86-1# apt-get install apt
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
apt is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
x86-1#