When applying upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 I got a ERROR and update-manager crashed

[Horacio]

I was doing a partial upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10
during the application of new packages the update-manager crashed.
Last lines in terminal were:

AssertionError
Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 113, in <module>
    controller.doPartialUpgrade()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1748, in doPartialUpgrade
    if not self.doPostUpgrade():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1152, in doPostUpgrade
    now_obsolete = self.cache._getObsoletesPkgs()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py", line 985, in _getObsoletesPkgs
    for pkg in self:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 197, in __iter__
    yield self[pkgname]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 182, in __getitem__
    pkg = self._weakref[key] = Package(self, self._cache[key])
KeyError: '0ad-dbg:i386'

My OS was Ubuntu 12.04 and my kernel was 3.2.0-31-generic
Now my kernel is 3.0.0-17-generic (at least is what I got when I do uname -r).

because my previous upgrade didn't complete update-manager doesn't work
it is telling me "index software is broken" please use Synaptic or sudo apt-get install -f to fix this issue
but I don't know how.
I didn't reboot my new system, please give me a hint what to do.

Thanks
Horacio

[Horacio (galanh)]

I reported the error above

Synaptic is running so I am trying to fix the broken packages with Synaptic.

When I applied the following changes with Synaptic I got the following error:

Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 21986 package 'libsdl-image1.2:i386':
 mixed non-coinstallable and coinstallable package instances present
W: Waited for dpkg --assert-multi-arch but it wasn't there - dpkgGo (10: No child processes)
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 21986 package 'libsdl-image1.2:i386':
 mixed non-coinstallable and coinstallable package instances present

Synaptic said "not all the changes and updates succeeded"

I cannot upgrade!
What you recommend ?
Thanks
Horacio

[Horacio (galanh)]

Now I tried : sudo apt-get install -f

The only error is always:

Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 21986 package 'libsdl-image1.2:i386':
 mixed non-coinstallable and coinstallable package instances present
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

Thanks
Horacio

[Book 'em Dano (heymrdjd)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the log files from '/var/log/dist-upgrade/' to this bug report as separate attachments? Thanks in advance.

[Horacio (galanh)]

error it stil there:

gato@gato-laptop:~$ sudo dpkg -l libsld-image*
[sudo] password for gato:
dpkg-query: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 21986 package 'libsdl-image1.2:i386':
 mixed non-coinstallable and coinstallable package instances present

Thanks

[Horacio (galanh)]

inside the file /var/lib/dpkg/status there are two libsdl-image* packages

gato@gato-laptop:~$ sed -n -e 21949,21986p /var/lib/dpkg/status
Package: libsdl-image1.2
Status: deinstall ok config-files
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 112
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Source: sdl-image1.2
Version: 1.2.7-1
Config-Version: 1.2.7-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libjpeg62, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libsdl1.2debian (>> 1.2.4), libtiff4, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Conflicts: armagetron (<< 0.1.4.9-5), burgerspace (<< 1.6.1-1), criticalmass (<< 0.97-2), libparagui1.0 (<= 0.1.0-1), libsdl-perl (<< 1.16-2)
Description: image loading library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2
 This is a simple library to load images of various formats as SDL surfaces.
 This library currently supports BMP, PPM, PCX, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and XPM
 formats.
Original-Maintainer: Michael Koch <email address hidden>
Homepage: http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/

Package: libsdl-image1.2
Status: install ok installed
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 96
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Source: sdl-image1.2
Version: 1.2.10-3
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.11), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.10-1), libtiff4
Pre-Depends: multiarch-support
Description: image loading library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2
 This is a simple library to load images of various formats as SDL surfaces.
 This library currently supports BMP, PPM, PCX, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and XPM
 formats.
Original-Maintainer: Debian SDL packages maintainers <email address hidden>
Homepage: http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/

gato@gato-laptop:~$

[Horacio (galanh)]

Mr. Dano thanks for review my logs

[Horacio (galanh)]

Still I cannot upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10
I did run Synaptic and then reload and there was 5 broken packages.
Attached is a image of 5 broken package....

During application of changes the error is always the same:

Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-fonts-nanum.conf", line 40: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not works as expected
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-fonts-unfonts-core.conf", line 11: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not works as expected
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 21970 package 'libsdl-image1.2:i386':
 mixed non-coinstallable and coinstallable package instances present
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 21970 package 'libsdl-image1.2:i386':
 mixed non-coinstallable and coinstallable package instances present

Thanks

[Book 'em Dano (heymrdjd)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!