update-manager package bug

[John Ingles]

Binary package hint: update-manager

It says:

A unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:
'E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.'

A ran this in the terminal:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Failed
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gconf2-common: Depends: ucf but it is not going to be installed
  libfontconfig1: Depends: fontconfig-config (= 2.5.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
  libmjpegtools0c2a: Depends: libquicktime1 (>= 2:1.0.0+debian) but it is not going to be installed
  libpam-modules: Depends: libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1) but it is not going to be installed
  libsasl2-2: Depends: libsasl2-modules (= 2.1.22.dfsg1-18ubuntu2) but it is not going to be installed or
                       libsasl2-modules-sql (= 2.1.22.dfsg1-18ubuntu2) but it is not installable or
                       libsasl2-modules-gssapi-heimdal (= 2.1.22.dfsg1-18ubuntu2) but it is not installable or
                       libsasl2-modules-kerberos-heimdal (= 2.1.22.dfsg1-18ubuntu2) but it is not installable
  libuuid1: Depends: passwd but it is not going to be installed
  login: PreDepends: libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1) but it is not going to be installed
  python2.5: Depends: libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8f-1) but it is not going to be installed
  vlc-nox: Depends: libavcodec1d (>= 0.cvs20070307) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libavformat1d (>= 0.cvs20070307) but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

I do not know how to resolve this.

I am using Ubuntu Hardy 8.10. I wish to upgrade to Jaunty soon.
The version of update-manager is 1:0.87.31

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 24 00:24:44 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-23-generic i686

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Please attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/*

After that, please run:
$ sudo apt-get install -f
and attach the output here.

[John Ingles (jingles)]

sudo apt-get install -f
[sudo] password for jack:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 71 not upgraded.

[John Ingles (jingles)]

heres the other file you asked for:

[Tim Casey (tjcasey)]

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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for update-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]