Upgrading to Feisty: Could not calculate the upgrade because of php4 and phpmyadmin

[Billy Mabray]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Each time I try to do a distribution upgrade via Update Manager it fails with the following error message:

Could not calculate the upgrade

A unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport.

I found several instances of this problem here, but they all seemed to have to do with different package dependency issues, and I couldn't tell by looking at the logs what was causing the problem.

[Billy Mabray (smartgoat)]

term.log is empty

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Can you please attach the file /etc/apt/preference and /var/lib/synaptic/preferences ? This looks like this is a problem releated to apt pinning.

Thanks,
 Michael

[Billy Mabray (smartgoat)]

I'm not finding either of those files.

Contents of /etc/apt:

/etc/apt$ ls -al
total 48
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2007-04-16 19:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 127 root root 8192 2007-04-20 09:38 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-16 21:10 apt.conf.d
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2006-03-10 17:06 secring.gpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1895 2007-04-20 11:47 sources.list
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-04-18 14:47 sources.list.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1885 2007-04-20 11:47 sources.list.distUpgrade
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1807 2006-06-29 19:47 sources.list-eu-2006-6-29-19-47-23
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1819 2006-03-12 23:35 sources.list.save
-rw------- 1 root root 1200 2006-03-10 17:06 trustdb.gpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2393 2006-03-10 17:06 trusted.gpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2381 2006-03-10 17:06 trusted.gpg~

Contents of /var/lib/synaptic:

/var/lib/synaptic$ ls -al
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-10-06 17:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 55 root root 4096 2007-04-16 21:22 ..

[Billy Mabray (smartgoat)]

Nevermind, I figured it out. PhpMyAdmin wasn't liking the fact that PHP4 was disappearing. Here's what I had to do:

1. Uninstall phpmyadmin via Synaptic Package Manager
2. Run upgrade
3. Install PHP5 via SPM
4. Disable PHP4 module in Apache2
5. Install phpmyadmin via SPM

This ticket can be closed, although somebody might want to look at the phpmyadmin and/or PHP5 packages to see if something about the dependencies needs to be fixed.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for following up. I'm closing this report due to your last comment. Don't hesitate to submit any new bug.