Unable to upgrade 22.04 to 22.10 because of gnome-calendar

[David R. Hedges]

I'm experiencing the same symptom as #1996509, #1995880, #1995087, though I have done my best to rule out any PPA-installed packages:

$aptitude search '?narrow(?installed, !~Oubuntu)'
i vivaldi-snapshot - Experience the web in a whole new way with Vivaldi.
i zoom - Zoom Cloud Meetings

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list | grep -v '^#'
deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.vivaldi.com/snapshot/deb/ stable main

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep -ve '^#'

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy main restricted

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-updates main restricted

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-updates universe

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-updates multiverse

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security multiverse

I also manually checked out several of the packages identified as potential problems in dist-upgrade/apt.log using `apt-cache policy ...`, and all reported as coming from security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu, http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/... or jammy-updates/...
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-12-13 (338 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" - Release amd64 (20211012)
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.17.0-1021.22-oem 5.17.15
Tags: jammy wayland-session dist-upgrade
Uname: Linux 5.17.0-1021-oem x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-11-16 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip libvirt lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo wireshark
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

_MarkForUpload: True

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Max Bowsher (maxb)]

I was experiencing this too.

By looking through the lines starting with "Broken " in /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log, and a bit of blind trial and error, I found the solution was to uninstall the gnome-calendar package before starting the upgrade.

[David R. Hedges (p14nd4)]

@maxb's workaround in #11 got me past this issue as well--thanks!

[Scott Carey (sputnik78)]

removing gnome-calendar did not fix it for me, but otherwise my apt.log and main.log are nearly identical.

What I did notice was that gnome-calendar was the first thing listed as broken by in the apt.log file here. For me, it was gir1.2-mutter-10 I removed that --

sudo apt remove gir1.2-mutter-10

(which removed ubuntu-desktop in the process!)

Then went ahead and did

sudo apt autoremove

sudo apt do-release-upgrade

and it worked!

Of course, with ubuntu-desktop gone, upon reboot the system was in text mode, so there was one more step:

sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop

TL;DR

Removing ubuntu-desktop and doing the upgrade without a window manager installed, then re-installing ubuntu-deskto from text mode worked.

[Glandos (glandos)]

I also confirmed that removing gnome-calendar was not enough.
I had to remove gir1.2-mutter-10, which removed gdm3 (and thus ubuntu-desktop) to be able to run do-release-upgrade until the end.