Upgrade 8.10 => 9.04: could not calculate the upgrade (vim-tiny / vim hold back)

[arne]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I tried upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04, but the update manager won't complete the upgrade process. Here's what the logs have to say.

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me@box:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
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Update manager says:

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Could not calculate the upgrade

An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

 This can be caused by:
 * Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
 * Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
 * Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu

If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report.
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/var/log/..../apt.log says:

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Installing vim-tiny as dep of ubuntu-minimal
Setting NOT as auto-installed (direct dep of pkg in APT::Never-MarkAuto-Section)
Starting
Starting 2
Investigating vim-tiny
Package vim-tiny has broken dep on vim-common
  Considering vim-common 6 as a solution to vim-tiny 7
  Holding Back vim-tiny rather than change vim-common
Investigating ubuntu-minimal
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on vim-tiny
  Considering vim-tiny 7 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10003
    Reinst Failed early because of vim-common
Done
Log time: 2009-04-23 15:39:41.071505
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/var/log/.../main.log says

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2009-04-23 15:38:27,651 DEBUG running jauntyPostDistUpgradeCache
2009-04-23 15:39:36,814 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.'
2009-04-23 15:39:36,816 DEBUG openCache()
2009-04-23 15:39:41,072 DEBUG /openCache()
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me@box:~$ dpkg -l | grep vim
hi vim 1:6.4-006+2ubuntu6.2 Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
hi vim-common 1:6.4-006+2ubuntu6.2 Vi IMproved - Common files
hi vim-runtime 1:6.4-006+2ubuntu6.2 Vi IMproved - Runtime files
arne@bollo:~$

me@box:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep vim
vim hold
vim-common hold
vim-runtime hold
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/etc/apt/sources.list

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## I hate vim 7.
## sources for vim6
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://mirrors.xmission.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://mirrors.xmission.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://mirrors.xmission.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-security main restricted universe multiverse
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ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: update-manager 1:0.93.34
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

please try installing the vim-tiny version from dapper or create a fake (empty) vim-tiny package. That should fix the issue.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

We are closing this report because there hasn't been any activity in it recently, we had no reply to our previous request and we've seen no recent duplicates. Don't hesitate to reopen if it's still an issue.