Update manager fails with error about not being able to install/upgrade blcr-dkms

[Charles Opondo]

Binary package hint: update-manager

This error occurred while upgrading Lucid to Maverick, at the stage 'Setting new software channels'. Manually installing/upgrading the package from Maverick repository while the upgrade is frozen at this stage allows the upgrade to proceed beyond here.

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Please run the following command and attach the output file to the next post. (The output file will be placed on your desktop)

sudo apt-get update > ~/Desktop/Update-File

Thanks.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 555729, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Charles Opondo (charlesopondo)]

I'm sorry, but in panic I used the procedure I described in the bug report to
resolve the problem before filing the report. I suspect the output of sudo
apt-get update > ~/Desktop/Update-File will not be useful?

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From: RedSingularity <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Wed, October 13, 2010 10:00:32 AM
Subject: [Bug 659701] Re: Update manager fails with error about not being able
to install/upgrade blcr-dkms

Please run the following command and attach the output file to the next
post. (The output file will be placed on your desktop)

sudo apt-get update > ~/Desktop/Update-File

Thanks.

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Update manager fails with error about not being able to install/upgrade
blcr-dkms
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Bug description:
Binary package hint: update-manager

This error occurred while upgrading Lucid to Maverick, at the stage 'Setting new
software channels'. Manually installing/upgrading the package from Maverick
repository while the upgrade is frozen at this stage allows the upgrade to
proceed beyond here.

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[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

No problem, it's better to file reports that we can mark as duplicate later than picking a random report and saying 'I'm affected' when it's completely unrelated. So, thank you for your report.

The output of the command is useless, it's a well known problem.
Nevertheless, I've filed a new report because if the error displayed by update-manager was less confusing you would have had to file a report.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Ooops, I meant "you would not have had"

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Dont worry about it. This is a duplicate anyway. It seems a lot of users are experiencing the same issue. Thanks for reporting it though!