cannot upgrade to 16.10
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I met all the conditions presumably but I still cannot upgrade and it won't tell me what package it finds offensive.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubuntu-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-57-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Dec 31 10:33:13 2016
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: ubuntu-
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-12-31 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgra
mtime.conffile.
tags: | added: xenial2yakkety |
I found a way to get around the problem. I look at the Broken/Conflicts packages in /var/log/ dist-upgrade/ apt.log. One by one, I attempt to remove them from the system using synaptic. If a removal will cause a few other packages to get removed, and those do not include the Ubuntu Desktop, I go ahead and allow them to be removed. I remove a sizable fraction of the problem packages. Then I retry doing the dist-upgrade. Eventually, even though there are some Broken/Conflicts, the dist-upgrade process is willing to go through. Hopefully, important basic packages that I have removed get reinstalled during the upgrade. Seems to have worked AOK.