could not upgrade os from 10.4 to 10.10. message:pkg problemresolverr

[Walter Motaung]

Binary package hint: update-manager

want to upgrade but could not
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Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429.4)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.134.11
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_ZA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-29.57-generic 2.6.32.28+drm33.13
Tags: ubuntu-une lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-29-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Thanks for reporting this. Please run the following command:

apport-collect 717430

After that, attach all the files located in /var/log/dist-upgrade

[Walter Motaung (wmotaung)]

apport information

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Great. Now attach the files from /var/log/dist-upgrade.

[Manfred Hampl (m-hampl)]

This can be a duplicate of bug 614993 (and dozens of similar ones)

If the package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is installed, in several cases the 10.04 to 10.10 upgrade fails with the error message

"Could not determine the upgrade
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held 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"

Several persons have reported that after removal of that package the upgrade was successful.

Try this workaround: Open a terminal and enter the command:

sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

and try the upgrade again.

[Walter Motaung (wmotaung)]

Extremely thankful for guide: It did the trick. Thanx a lot

On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 14:15 +0000, Manfred Hampl wrote:
> This can be a duplicate of bug 614993 (and dozens of similar ones)
>
> If the package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is installed, in several cases
> the 10.04 to 10.10 upgrade fails with the error message
>
> "Could not determine the upgrade
> An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
> E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held 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"
>
> Several persons have reported that after removal of that package the
> upgrade was successful.
>
> Try this workaround: Open a terminal and enter the command:
>
> sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
>
> and try the upgrade again.
>

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

This is then a confirmed duplicate of bug 614993. Marking.