Synaptic upgrade all fails due to dependency problems

[Martin Olsson]

1. Boot Gutsy Tribe 5 Live CD
2. (I changed to swedish keyboard layout and activated the "Fish" gnome panel applet but I'm pretty sure these steps are not necessary to repro this bug).
3. Open "System :: Administration :: Synaptic Package Manager"
4. Press Reload and wait a while
5. Press "Mark All Upgrades".
6. After like 3-4 minutes I get an error message saying that these packages has dependency problems:
* gnome-power-manager
* hal-device-manager
* update-notifier
* ubuntu-desktop

(see also the attached screenshot)

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

Another noteworthy thing is that when I first tried to create the screenshot I tried saving it to the desktop and that didn't work (which is usually does). Could it be something silly that I'm running out of disk space on the ramdisk or something? I got 2GB RAM on this machine and df doesn't show any partition at 100% use though.

[Jim Bailey (jim-freesolutions)]

package hal-device-manager 0.5.9.1-1ubuntu8 failed to install/upgrade: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

this and a whole load of other apps badly mess up after upgrade Gutsy has been stable for last few days before this.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This should not be an issue any more in Gutsy final.