upgrade calcuation failed due to PPA versions of packages

[Michael Probst]

Update manager fails while fetching new packages -- specifically stating it is unable to install the xubuntu-desktop package. After doing bug report the upgrade process wants to continue with the upgrade. Not really comfortable with an upgrade process continuing without a critical package.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.156.14.11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-43.68-generic 3.2.42
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-43-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 21 09:44:05 2013
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationMedia: This
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2013-05-21 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

[Craig Hrabal (crhrabal)]

Could you be a tad bit more specific what you mean by "upgrade". Did you upgrade to Precise, and from what distro did you upgrade from?

[Michael Probst (mkprobst)]

     This was so long ago that I am partially guessing here, but, if I
remember correctly I believe that update manager was set to allow
automatic upgrade when a new version is released and when it tried to do
so it ran into the bug which was automatically reported. I was
oblivious to this for a while but eventually caught on. As I am on the
LTS version and will probably only upgrade when the next LTS is released
I eventually disabled the automatic upgrade option in the update manager
and have had no more issues. It updates the system now instead of
trying to upgrade to a newer version. Thanks...

On 11/14/2013 03:59 PM, Craig Hrabal wrote:
> Could you be a tad bit more specific what you mean by "upgrade". Did you
> upgrade to Precise, and from what distro did you upgrade from?
>

--
Michael K. Probst
828-256-8796

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The release upgrader was unable to calculate the upgrade path because the package thunar-data which you appear to have installed from a PPA.

2013-05-21 09:43:22,169 DEBUG Foreign: xfce4-settings thunar-data libexo-helpers libexo-common libexo-1-0 virtualbox-4.1 exo-utils google-chrome-stable parole mousepad xfce4-terminal

and

2013-05-21 09:43:22,262 DEBUG examining: 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.12/ubuntu precise main'
2013-05-21 09:43:22,264 DEBUG entry '# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.12/ubuntu quantal main # disabled on upgrade to quantal' was disabled (unknown mirror)
2013-05-21 09:43:22,264 DEBUG examining: 'deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.12/ubuntu precise main'
2013-05-21 09:43:22,267 DEBUG entry '# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.12/ubuntu quantal main # disabled on upgrade to quantal' was disabled (unknown mirror)