Distribution Upgrade Fails jaunty jackalope

[Byron]

Synaptic tells me that I have a distribution upgrade available, but when I try to upgrade, the upgrade always fails. I have documented the latest failure in accompanying files and I will try to append /var/logs/dist-upgrade logs. I am unsure of my present system state; however, I was using Ubuntu 9.04 prior to the upgrade. (Presently, I seem to be using 9.10 karmic koala.)

'apt-cache policy synaptic' returns:
synaptic:
  Installed: 0.62.7ubuntu6
  Candidate: 0.62.7ubuntu6
  Version table:
 *** 0.62.7ubuntu6 0
        500 http://astromirror.uchicago.edu karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
Is this problem present with the latest updated Lucid's or Maverick's packages?
Thanks in advance
Fabio

[Byron (byron-watkins)]

Hi Fabio,
   This problem went away with 10.xx Lucid, I think; however, the
computer sometimes crashes when booting to the Gnome GUI.

Byron

On 10/25/2010 8:44 AM, Fabio Marconi wrote:
> Hello
> Is this problem present with the latest updated Lucid's or Maverick's packages?
> Thanks in advance
> Fabio
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

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Thank you,

Byron Watkins