update-manager -d tar: /etc/apt/preferences: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
hans@hajajov:~$ update-manager -d
extracting 'lucid.tar.gz'
authenticate 'lucid.tar.gz' against 'lucid.tar.gz.gpg'
tar: /etc/apt/
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
warning: line 288: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 289: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 598: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 903: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 1312: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 1313: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 1314: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 1762: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 1763: incompatible stripping characters and condition
warning: line 1764: incompatible stripping characters and condition
WARNING: Failed to read mirror file
hans@hajajov:~$
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 13 00:00:59 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: update-manager 1:0.126.9
PackageArchitec
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-21-generic i686
Could not determine 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.