hardy update fails to update in audacious pre-depends

[phyzun]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I don't know what went wrong. I was updating to Hardy from Ubuntu Studio 64-bit edition and after several hours of downloading the files, the update manager gets to the installation phase and fails to install. A message pops up asking if I want to report the problem and then it links me to this site.

1) using Ubuntu release 2.6.22-14-rt
2) using the 'apt-cache policy packagename' from the terminal yields the following response: "W: Unable to locate package packagename"
3) I expected to update to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron release
4) Such an update did not occur for a reason I don't know.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 27 00:08:00 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Couldn't configure pre-depend audacious-plugins for audacious-plugins-extra, probably a dependency cycle.

Package: update-manager 1:0.81
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.81 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Couldn't configure pre-depend audacious-plugins for audacious-plugins-extra, probably a dependency cycle.
Uname: Linux Veronica 2.6.22-14-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Sun Oct 14 22:53:32 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

I milestone this issues as it may break upgrades.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Please attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade to this bugreport.
 Thanks Michael

[phyzun (phyzun)]

I tried to uninstall audacious to see if that would fix the problem and somehow ended up crashing my system.

[phyzun (phyzun)]

In other words I can't get the files. I'm assuming my best bet would to just clean install Hardy.

[Darius Žitkevicius (skystis)]

Ubuntu studio fails to upgrade to hardy due audacious dependencies.

When removed audacious and ubuntustudio-audio upgrade goes niceley.

After upgrade installed ubuntustudio-audio and everything was fine.

[Zian (zian-choy)]

How did you remove Audacious? According to phyzun, removing Audacious ended up crashing his system.

[Darius Žitkevicius (skystis)]

sudo aptitude remove audacious ubuntustudio-audio

Removed packages:
audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-extra libaudclient1 libaudid3tag1 libcddb2 libmowgli1 libneon27-gnutls audacious ubuntustudio-audio

System works fine.

To install back:
sudo aptitude install ubuntustudio-audio

[Zian (zian-choy)]

Thanks. Looks like everything works fairly well after I followed your instructions.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I'm going to mark this as a duplicate of bug 221382, as it has 8 other duplicates, and bring the milestone over to it.