[dist-upgrader] Error Message, It will not let me upgrade to Dapper Drake.

[pianoboy3333]

I was told that to upgrade to Ubuntu Dapper Drake (yes I'm aware that it is still in development) go to this site: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2006-January/014700.html and add that repository to get some python libs, and the new update-manager which has a nice upgrade button, for upgrading to Dapper. I did all that, it seemed like it was all going good. I hit the upgrade button, and it was going well until it reached the third section reading Downloading and Installing the upgrades. Here it is:

Could not calculate the upgrade

A unresolvable problem occured while calculating the upgrade. Please report this as a bug.

It then only gives me a close button, and when I click that it's gone. When I reboot or startup Ubuntu, there are no problems whatsoever.

[pianoboy3333 (pianoboy3333)]

After many times of doing this, I ran sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. After some number of tries it finally started the upgrade.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Does that mean that you already did the upgrade now? Do you still have logs from the failure (in /var/log/dist-upgrade.log) ?

[pianoboy3333 (pianoboy3333)]

I do have the log, I have posted it in the ubuntu paste bin here: http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/9454

To answer your other question, I am now upgraded.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I attached the errorlogfile here too to make sure it won't be deleted when the pastebin is cleared.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for this additional info.

Are you behind a proxy? (or a transparent proxy)?

Thanks,
 Michael

[pianoboy3333 (pianoboy3333)]

No, I am not behind a proxy at all.

[pianoboy3333 (pianoboy3333)]

Is there anyother information that you need? The bug's status still says 'Needs Info'.

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Does "wget http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz" work for you? Which country are you from?

Would you like to get the sources of update-manager and try the new version of the dist-upgrade tool - the upgrading would be a normal update of your system? If yes I can give you the corresponding instructions.

Regards,

Sebastian

[pianoboy3333 (pianoboy3333)]

The wget command does work for me, I am in the USA, but no thanks to your second question since I am already on dapper.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This might be a issue with us.archive.ubuntu.com, I got a similar bugreport recently. The upgrade didn't worked because of md5 errors from the us.archive.u.c server.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Could you please try the upgrade again and see if the latest version works better?

[Elias K Gardner (zorkerz)]

I am haveing the same problem, accidentally started another bug for it. After downloading packages on an upgrade from breezy to dapper flight 6 I get the following message when it attempts to install.
"Could not calculate the upgrade
A unresolvable problem occured while calculating the upgrade. Please report this as a bug."
I don't know much about what im doing. Tell me how i can help. I havent found another way to upgrade.
elias

[Elias K Gardner (zorkerz)]

When I type sudo apt-get dist-upgrade into a terminal i recieve three errors.
E: Registration process existed with status: 139
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
and
E: /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/extensions/installed-extensions.txt still present. R egistration might have gone wrong.
mv: cannot stat `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/defaults.ini': No such file or directo ry
dpkg: error processing firefox (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of j2re1.4-mozilla-plugin:
 j2re1.4-mozilla-plugin depends on mozilla-browser | firefox; however:
  Package mozilla-browser is not installed.
  Package firefox is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing j2re1.4-mozilla-plugin (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 firefox
 j2re1.4-mozilla-plugin

I assume this is a result of my fiddleing with firefox installations. I will play around with it more and find out.

[Simon741 (simon-okko)]

When trying to upgrade from 5.10 to 6.06 I ran into the same problem. I did the following:

gksudo "update-manager -d"

then opens a Window with the telling me that "New distribution release "dapper" is awailable" and an "upgrade" button. When hitting this I'm informed, that this is still a development snapshot.

Then a window "upgrade to Ubtuntu Dapper 6.06" opens. After "preparing the upgrade" and "modifying the software channels" it starts "downloading and installing the upgrade" and I get the above mentioned error message " Could not calculate the upgrade".

After confirming it restores the original system state.

Note that I'm in Switzerland and not USA, so it can't be linked to the above mentioned error with the md5 checksum.

Maybe the following information from the upgrade-log file helps:

2006-05-24 21:15:14,956 DEBUG entry '# deb http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/ hoary-extras main universe multiverse restricted' was disabled (unknown mirror)
2006-05-24 21:16:25,729 DEBUG Marking 'ubuntu-desktop' for upgrade
2006-05-24 21:16:25,765 DEBUG Marking 'xubuntu-desktop' for upgrade
2006-05-24 21:16:26,253 DEBUG Can't mark 'xubuntu-desktop' for upgrade (E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.)
2006-05-24 21:17:50,087 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'Can't upgrade required meta-packages'

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

@Elias K Gardner: this bug looks like a problem with the j2rel-1.4-mozilla-plugin packages. I'll try to reproduce this problem on a clean breezy->dapper upgrade.

@Simon741 and @: Could you please attach the files /var/log/dist-upgrade*.log?

[Simon741 (simon-okko)]

Actually after xfce with Synaptic, the install worked perfectly.

[Simon741 (simon-okko)]

As mentioned in my previous message, I was able to upgrade after uninstalling xfce with Synaptic

[Daniel (biro-daniel)]

I have the same problem.
I pasted my /var/log/dist-upgrade.log to http://pastebin.com/753847
There are some broken packages but I dont know how I can repair it.

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Attached since the pastebin won't store it forever.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

@Daniel: Thanks for this information. Can you please also attach your /var/log/dist-upgrade-apt.log file to the bugreport? It contains the debug informations from apts problem resolver.

[Daniel (biro-daniel)]

Today I rerun sudo update-manager -d
I attach the logs.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

@Daniel: it looks like your installed openoffice conflicts with the openoffice from the repository. It should work if you remove your current openoffice and try the upgrade again.

Cheers,
 Michael

[Daniel (biro-daniel)]

Thanks Michael. This solved the problem.

[mickel (nogitsune)]

I get the same problem. I'm in Sweden, behind no proxies (that I know of). My dist-upgrade.log showed no problems, my dist-upgrade-term.log was empty, but my dist-upgrade-apt.log gave me a list of broken deps from here to Methuselah. Yow! Doubleplus ungood. I'm not very Linux savvy (yet) so I have no idea how I caused this, I'm afraid...

[Ben Linker (ben-linker)]

I had same problem - have tried installing or removing all sorts of things, including openoffice. this removed the ubuntu-desktop package, and it wouldn't install without that. I then added the desktop back, and it insisted I install openoffice with it, which I did. Problem is still the same though. Where now?

[Mathew Kurian (mathewke)]

I am also getting the same problem. I am from India, so the problem cannot be due to corrupted archives as many people from other places are also reporting the same problem. The dist-upgrade.log file says "Can't mark 'ubuntu-desktop' for upgrade (E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages)" What should I do? My current version of Ubuntu is 5.10

[martin_kreuzer (info-airkreuzer)]

Same thing here... situated in Germany, no proxy.

[martin_kreuzer (info-airkreuzer)]

Found this comment in thread Bug Report #45990:

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Re: [dist.upgrader] "unresolvable problem" reported during Breezy->Dapper upgrade from Michael Vogt at 2006-08-28 08:04:12 UTC

@Ben Linker: It looks like your sources.list lacks the "main" repository in your sources.list. Please change:

'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy universe'
to
'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy main restricted universe'

and try the upgrade again and let me know if it works then.

Thanks,
 Michael
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After I edited the /etc/apt/sources.list file as Michael suggested, my update to Dapper started (offered 1'61 files for download etc).
Looks like that solved the problem for me. (If not, I'll be back here:)
If you like to have some logs for info, pse let me know.
Sorry if I sound a bit unspecific, but I'am a complete newby.
Martin

[martin_kreuzer (info-airkreuzer)]

...make that _1'161_ files for download (roughly estimated 1 hr on a low-end ADSL connection).

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

Versions of Ubuntu before dapper are no longer supported, so I am marking this bug as invalid. If you experience similar problems in newer versions of ubuntu, please reopen or file a new bug.