[natty] update-manager: E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

[Noel J. Bergman]

Binary package hint: update-manager

When the update manager loads, it presents:

Could not calculate the upgrade

An 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.'

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.145.1 [modified: usr/bin/update-manager]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-2.10-generic 2.6.37-rc1
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-2-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 11 17:19:35 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100601)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

The problem went away -- seemingly in response to me removing compiz-fusion-plugins-extra, which was blocking the update of compiz.

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Closing bug.

[Haikal Pribadi (haikalpribadi)]

Nope, it's is not fixed.
I'm trying to upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 right now, and the same error came up, and, yes, i did try to remove compiz-fusion-plugins-extra. so this is definitely not the reason.
any help would be much appreciated.

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Haikal, can you make a new report? This one is rather old. You can link me to it in an email if you want and I will work with you on it. Thanks.

[Guillem (guillemsola)]

Same to me, I attach /var/log/dist-upgrade folder

[Guillem (guillemsola)]

I tried to change maverick to natty in sources.list to upgrade.

When updating it says that those dependencies could not be satisfied

libpango1.0-0 network-manager-gnome plymouth xserver-xorg-core

On console:
(if you see weird translation thats because was done with google translate)

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  dbus: Depends: Upstart-job
         Depends: Upstart (> = 0.6.3-6) but will not be
installed
  HostName: Predepèn: Upstart-job
  logrotate: Depends: cron or
                      Anacron but will not be installed or
                      fcron but will not be installed
  module-init-tools: Depends: Upstart-job
  netbase: Depends: initscripts but will not be installed
            Depends: Upstart-job
            Recommends: ifupdown
  network-manager-gnome: Depends: network-manager (> =
0.8.4 ~) but will not be installed
  procps: Depends: Upstart-job
           Depends: initscripts but will not be installed
  udev: Depends: Upstart-job
  util-linux: Depends: Upstart-job
  x11-common: Depends: Upstart-job
  xserver-xorg-core: Depends: keyboard-configuration but
not be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver:: Resolve generated breaks,
This can be caused by held packages.

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Guillem, can you make a new report? This one is rather old. Thanks.

[Guillem (guillemsola)]

I'm on a two month old maverick amd64. What do you need for a good report?

repeated test an attached repport

$ update-manager -d
extracting 'natty.tar.gz'
authenticate 'natty.tar.gz' against 'natty.tar.gz.gpg'
WARNING: Failed to read mirror file

test2. With apt-get

After change in sources.list maverick to natty did a update and then I get

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package list ... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information ... Done
Calculating upgrade ... Failed
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  dbus: Depends: Upstart-job
         Depends: Upstart (> = 0.6.3-6) but will not be
installed
  HostName: Predepèn: Upstart-job
  logrotate: Depends: cron or
                      Anacron but will not be installed or
                      fcron but will not be installed
  module-init-tools: Depends: Upstart-job
  netbase: Depends: initscripts but will not be installed
            Depends: Upstart-job
            Recommends: ifupdown
  network-manager-gnome: Depends: network-manager (> =
0.8.4 ~) but will not be installed
  procps: Depends: Upstart-job
           Depends: initscripts but will not be installed
  udev: Depends: Upstart-job
  util-linux: Depends: Upstart-job
  x11-common: Depends: Upstart-job
  xserver-xorg-core: Depends: keyboard-configuration but
not be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver:: Resolve generated breaks,
This can be caused by held packages.

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Sorry, I meant start a whole new launchpad report. This one is closed. To do so, run this and follow the steps:

apport-bug update-manager

Thanks.