upgraded from Jaunty alpha 4 to 5; synaptic now broken.

[ardentmoth]

1) rocksndiamonds failed installation on Jaunty Alpha 4.
2) during the partial distribution upgrade to Jaunty alpha 5, synaptic broke.
3) i removed rocksndiamonds from my installation Queue, since it had tried to update multiple times; then i opened update manager to grab the other updates i needed.
4) an error message (two or three actually) told me that synaptic was in pain, that i needed to repair some file dependencies. Also, the ubuntu-desktop was removed. after running the apt-get install -f, then apt-get autoremove to eliminate what i was told were unnecesary packages planned for removal, i opened synaptic to try to get my updates better.
5) terminal gave me the following:

/usr/bin/lsb_release:81: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
  import sets

(synaptic:17169): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tree_view_unref_tree_helper: assertion `node != NULL' failed

6) any attempts to install ubuntu-desktop were prevented by a list of it's dependencies followed by "but will not be installed." what on earth?

so there you have it. i will continue attempting to update my other files as i would normally; it could be a temporary issue.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the final release of Jaunty Jackalope 9.04. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[ardentmoth (ardent-moth)]

I'll check it out; since i've got your ear, you might know the answer to a
quick question: is it possible to update from Hardy UNR to Jaunty w/ UNR, or
do i need to just reinstall ubuntu on my netbook with the latest Jaunty?

--C

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Charlie Kravetz <email address hidden>wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be
> reproducible with the final release of Jaunty Jackalope 9.04. We were
> wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu
> release? Thanks again and we appreciate your help.
>
> --
> upgraded from Jaunty alpha 4 to 5; synaptic now broken.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/335977
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “synaptic” source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> 1) rocksndiamonds failed installation on Jaunty Alpha 4.
> 2) during the partial distribution upgrade to Jaunty alpha 5, synaptic
> broke.
> 3) i removed rocksndiamonds from my installation Queue, since it had tried
> to update multiple times; then i opened update manager to grab the other
> updates i needed.
> 4) an error message (two or three actually) told me that synaptic was in
> pain, that i needed to repair some file dependencies. Also, the
> ubuntu-desktop was removed. after running the apt-get install -f, then
> apt-get autoremove to eliminate what i was told were unnecesary packages
> planned for removal, i opened synaptic to try to get my updates better.
> 5) terminal gave me the following:
>
> /usr/bin/lsb_release:81: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
> import sets
>
> (synaptic:17169): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tree_view_unref_tree_helper:
> assertion `node != NULL' failed
>
> 6) any attempts to install ubuntu-desktop were prevented by a list of it's
> dependencies followed by "but will not be installed." what on earth?
>
> so there you have it. i will continue attempting to update my other files
> as i would normally; it could be a temporary issue.
>

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!