unable to upgrade to 13.10 via upgrade-manager

[Jim McKay]

After getting a notice for bug 1214186 i did the following:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo update-manager -p

I am still unable to migrate from raring to saucy on my vm.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.192.13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-33.48-generic 3.8.13.11
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.5
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Sat Oct 26 13:41:13 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-05 (50 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-10-26 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

From VarLogDistupgradeMain.log we see:

2013-10-26 13:40:15,972 DEBUG Marking 'ubuntu-desktop' for upgrade
2013-10-26 13:40:16,058 DEBUG blacklist expr '^postgresql-.*[0-9]\.[0-9].*' matches 'postgresql-8.4'
2013-10-26 13:40:16,058 DEBUG The package 'postgresql-8.4' is marked for removal but it's in the removal blacklist
2013-10-26 13:40:53,234 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'The package 'postgresql-8.4' is marked for removal but it is in the removal blacklist.'

The upgrade is prevented rather than remove the postgresql-8.4 package which does not exist in saucy. This is done to ensure that you do no lose access to your databases.