bug during upgrade from 5.10 to 6.06 beta2

[TattRat]

Whilst attempting the above, the following error was given. (log files could be available via email):

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/tmp/tmpJkCDED/dapper", line 28, in ?
    app.run()

  File "/tmp/tmpJkCDED/DistUpgradeControler.py", line 353, in run
    self.dapperUpgrade()

  File "/tmp/tmpJkCDED/DistUpgradeControler.py", line 332, in dapperUpgrade
    if not self.askDistUpgrade():

  File "/tmp/tmpJkCDED/DistUpgradeControler.py", line 179, in askDistUpgrade
    if not self.cache.distUpgrade(self._view):

  File "/tmp/tmpJkCDED/DistUpgradeCache.py", line 134, in distUpgrade
    if not self._installMetaPkgs(view):

  File "/tmp/tmpJkCDED/DistUpgradeCache.py", line 208, in _installMetaPkgs
    self[pkg].markInstall()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/cache.py", line 78, in __getitem__
    return self._dict[key]

KeyError: 'ubuntu-base'

[TattRat (myredroom)]

asked for file

[TattRat (myredroom)]

also requested

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Could you please give it another try? the upgrade tool was updated recently and should be able to handle this situation much better now.

Thanks,
 michael

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

Is this still a problem?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and feel free to submit bug reports in the future.