Partial upgrade required -> leads to exit

[Paul Sladen]

Binary package hint: update-manager

'update-manager' will exit without a solution in some situations involving partial upgrades and/or unauthenicated packages.

1. Run 'sudo update-manager'
2. Shows dialogue "Not all updates can be installed" (Partial upgrade/Close)
3. Shows dialogue "Running Partial Update"
4. Shows dialogue "Error authenticating some packages" (firefox-dbgsym, libc6-i686-dbgsym) (Close)
5. update-manager silently exits with no useful suggestion of how to fix the situation.

Ideally 'update-manager' would provide a dialogue showing what to do, suggest the user try again later, or find some other way to solve the situation automagicall.y

[mfalcon (syracuse)]

While running Ubuntu 7.04 and successfully applying a number of patches, suddenly, no further patches can be applied. These are the packages in question (which have been installed since 6.10):

anyevent-perl
dvd-slideshow
dvdrip
faac
faad
ffmpeg
gtkpod-aac
lame
libavcodeccvs51
libavformatcvs51
libavutilcvs49
libfaac0
libfaad0
libgpod-common
libgpod1
liblame0
libmjpegtools0
libmp4v2-0
libmyth-0.20.2
libpostproccvs51
libswscalecvs0
libx264-54
mjpegtools
mozilla-mplayer
mytharchive
mytharchive-data
mythbrowser
mythcontrols
mythdvd
mythflix
mythgallery
mythgame
mythmusic
mythnews
mythphone
mythplugins
mythtv
mythtv-backend
mythtv-common
mythtv-database
mythtv-frontend
mythtv-themes
mythvideo
mythweather
mythweb
qdvdauthor
transcode

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!