upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10 Could not calculate the upgrade

[28tejas]

Binary package hint: update-manager

The terminal window showed this to me. I read other bug related to this problem but for earlier versions. I cound not solve it. Please instruct me in detail as I am new user and not habitual to command. The following is the report the terminal window showed me:

Calculating the changes

Could not calculate 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.

Restoring original system state

Aborting
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done

[Manfred Hampl (m-hampl)]

This can be a duplicate of bug 721306 and 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.

[28tejas (28tejas)]

Same Problem again after removing "xserver-xorg-video-nouveau".Tell me other option to salve this problem,
otherwise any other way to upgrade without formating the existing data......!

[Manfred Hampl (m-hampl)]

Please attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ as instructed in the error message

[Manfred Hampl (m-hampl)]

The log files confirm that is different from 721306 as
The problem lies most probably in package upstart-logd which is a package from hardy - why would that still be there on a lucid system?

Please open a terminal and execute the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -f
and paste all output into a new comment of this bug thread

[28tejas (28tejas)]

sneha@sneha-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for sneha:
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Release i386 (20101007)/ maverick/main Translation-en_IN
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Release i386 (20101007)/ maverick/restricted Translation-en_IN
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu-Studio 9.04 _Jaunty Jackalope_ - Release i386 (20090421.4)/ jaunty/main Translation-en_IN
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu-Studio 9.04 _Jaunty Jackalope_ - Release i386 (20090421.4)/ jaunty/multiverse Translation-en_IN
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu-Studio 9.04 _Jaunty Jackalope_ - Release i386 (20090421.4)/ jaunty/restricted Translation-en_IN
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu-Studio 9.04 _Jaunty Jackalope_ - Release i386 (20090421.4)/ jaunty/universe Translation-en_IN
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Translation-en_IN
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/restricted Translation-en_IN
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/lucid-bleed/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_IN
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/universe Translation-en_IN
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/multiverse Translation-en_IN
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_IN
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_IN
Ign http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Translation-en_IN
Ign http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Translation-en_IN
Ign http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Translation-en_IN
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg [198B]
Ign http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Translation-en_IN
Ign http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Translation-en_IN
Ign http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe Translation-en_IN
Ign...

[Manfred Hampl (m-hampl)]

Please issue also the following command and paste the output again:
apt-cache policy upstart*

[28tejas (28tejas)]

sneha@sneha-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy upstart
upstart:
  Installed: 0.6.5-8
  Candidate: 0.6.5-8
  Version table:
 *** 0.6.5-8 0
        500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.6.5-6 0
        500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
     0.3.9-8 0
        500 cdrom://Ubuntu-Studio 9.04 _Jaunty Jackalope_ - Release i386 (20090421.4)/ jaunty/main Packages
sneha@sneha-desktop:~$

[Manfred Hampl (m-hampl)]

Please open System - Administration - Software Sources
and disable (unmark) all entries that refer to CDs for jaunty or maverick
Then reload the package inventory and try the upgrade again.

[Manfred Hampl (m-hampl)]

The CDs are listed on the second page ('Other Software') of that dialogue window.

[28tejas (28tejas)]

still unable to upgrade and even update also...

[Manfred Hampl (m-hampl)]

Please try again with the following commands

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

and copy/paste the output.

If there are no more error messages try

sudo do-release-upgrade

and again copy/paste the output.

[Joshua Lückers (joshualuckers)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for update-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]