Installation of kubuntu 11.10 failed. "Could not calculate the upgrade"

[John Cox]

Ugrade being done inside kubuntu. System is 64 bit system with nvidia driver. kernel is 2.6.37-12-generic. I am trying to upgrade from the previous kubuntu version, 11.04.

Error message was "Could not calculate the upgrade".
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Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: update-manager (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-12.51-generic 2.6.38.8
Tags: natty
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-12-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-11-08 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[John Cox (johnrcox)]

distribution-upgrade

[Phil. V (philip.v)]

Thanks for your bug report. Could you please run the following command in a terminal:
apport-collect 887386

After you do that please make sure apport attached the files in var/log/dist-upgrade, and if they weren't attached please manually attach them.

[John Cox (johnrcox)]

My system is 11.04 not 10 something.

I don't know if all of the files were attached...

[Phil. V (philip.v)]

Thanks for running the command. Could you please check and see if there's a file called "term.log" in "var/log/dist-upgrade", and attach it if it's there? Otherwise I think this has enough information for someone more familiar with debugging upgrade problems to diagnose the problem.

[John Cox (johnrcox)]

Hi Phil,

There was a file there, but the size was zero and your file attacher was unhappy with it.

[Phil. V (philip.v)]

Alright, then there's nothing of importance there. Thank you for checking.

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Attach the whole directory:

/var/log/dist-upgrade

Thanks.

[John Cox (johnrcox)]

Here's the whole mess...

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John R. Cox
[phone]

"blessed are those who dream dreams, and are willing to pay the price to make them come true." - Cardinal Sunans

On 11/26/11 01:19, Tim wrote:
> Attach the whole directory:
>
> /var/log/dist-upgrade
>
> Thanks.
>
> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Duplicate of bug 874220.
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[John Cox (johnrcox)]

That fixed the problem.

BTW: Kubuntu 11.10 is very nice and the repaired installation went well.

Thanks again. I really appreciate your help.

John

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John R. Cox
[phone]

"blessed are those who dream dreams, and are willing to pay the price to make them come true." - Cardinal Sunans

On 11/27/11 01:16, Tim wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 874220 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874220
>
> Duplicate of bug 874220.
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> Ubuntu Bug Squad volunteer triager
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad
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> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 874220
> [MASTER] Failed to calculate the upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10: libsublime2 breaks on libsublime1
>