broken dependency in kernel upgrade

[Bruce Miller]

Binary package hint: linux-generic

~> aptitude --with-recommends install linux-image-generic linux-headers-generic linux-restricted-modules-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic linux-restricted-modules-generic
3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 74.3kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  linux-headers-generic: Depends: linux-headers-2.6.22-10-generic which is a virtual package.
  linux-image-generic: Depends: linux-image-2.6.22-10-generic which is a virtual package.
                       Depends: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-10-generic which is a virtual package.
  linux-restricted-modules-generic: Depends: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.22-10-generic which is a virtual package.
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
kubuntu-desktop
linux-headers-generic
xubuntu-desktop

Keep the following packages at their current version:
linux-image-generic [2.6.22.9.10 (gutsy, now)]
linux-restricted-modules-generic [2.6.22.9.10 (gutsy, now)]

Score is -29723

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q
Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.
Abort.
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[Christophe Charlot (c-charlot)]

I have the exact same problem : linux-image-generic (and so on) appear to be broken packages, ans gusty won't boot anymore : grub error 13

[Christophe Charlot (c-charlot)]

I just had gusty working again by installing linux-image-debug-2.6.22-9-generic after booting with an install cd and selecting 'repair' installaion from the menu, then shell on /dev/sda1 (sorry if these are not the exact terms, I'm typing this from memory)..

[Michal (mikeos)]

I'm running Gutsy for several months. Today I upgraded to the new kernel 2.6.22-10 and I should have not, since there are broken dependencies as you're mentioning guys - the crucial one is absence of: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-10 in the repos, which prevents other 2 kernel related packages from upgrading.
In my case the system boots up, but I had to revert to nv driver since the nvidia-glx new fails to compile (logically) with not existing kernel sources for 2.6.22-10. Same problem for VirtualBox which needs to be recompiled and cannot find non installable kernel sources.

Evidently the new kernel has been put into the repos prematurely. I hope the maintainers will fix it soon. I just wonder why in your case the kernel failed to load. It works fine for me, without having to hack anything.

[Michal (mikeos)]

Closed. No further action needed. 23.8.2007 repositories already contained all the dependent packages.

[Bruce Miller (brm0423)]

Agreed. Thank you.