precise headless server upgrade failed

[computorist]

I attempted a headless server upgrade from oneiric to precise by

ssh server
screen -RD
sudo do-release-upgrade

I've done this exact set of steps for several releases without issue. This time, I received this output:

Get:362 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main subversion-tools all 1.6.17dfsg-3ubuntu3 [136 kB]
Fetched 141 MB in 6s (160 kB/s)

Upgrading
apport: unrecognized service
Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)
Exception during pm.DoInstall(): E:Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libjpeg-dev'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)

Could not install the upgrades

The upgrade has aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state. A
recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a).

Please report this bug in a browser at
http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+filebug and
attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ to the bug report.
E:Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libjpeg-dev'. Please
see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)

Upgrade complete

The upgrade has completed but there were errors during the upgrade
process.

To continue please press [ENTER]

[computorist (travis-hume)]

Hmmm, this is log I meant to attach

[computorist (travis-hume)]

Ok, I was able to work around this by removing libjpeg-dev and trying again.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Gerald Drouillard (gerald-drouillard)]

Same thing for med. To remove:
apt-get remove libjpeg62-dev
It may update/remove a few other packages.
do-release-upgrade
apt-get install libjpeg-dev (if you still need it)

Everything else seems fine.

[sergio (serge-simon)]

Same error for me.
The "sudo apt-get remove libjpeg62-dev" did the trick.

I still had the
"apport: unrecognized service"
when i launched do-release-upgrade for a second time.

Right now it's still running but seems ok.

[Jens Maus (jens.maus)]

I am having the same issue here when trying to upgrade a 11.10 system to 12.04 (precise). And the mentioned workaround does not work. as soon as I try to "apt-get remove libjpeg62-dev" I get the following error:

-- cut here --
root@uranus:/etc# sudo apt-get remove libjpeg62-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libjpeg-dev libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg-turbo8-dev libjpeg8 libjpeg8-dev liblzma5 r-base-core r-base-dev
Suggested packages:
  ess r-doc-info r-doc-pdf r-mathlib r-base-html texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-extra texinfo texi2html
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libjpeg62-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libjpeg-dev libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg-turbo8-dev libjpeg8-dev liblzma5
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libjpeg8 r-base-core r-base-dev
3 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 1 to remove and 971 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/20.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1593 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libjpeg-dev'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
-- cut here --

[Jens Maus (jens.maus)]

Also an "sudo apt-get -o APT::Immediate-Configure=false remove libjpeg62-dev" does not work and returns the same error. currently I am unable to run continue upgrading the system to 12.04. Any help?

[Jens Maus (jens.maus)]

Ok. now I did it the hard way by doing a

dpkg --force -r libjpeg62-dev
apt-get -f install

to force an uninstall of libjpeg62-dev via dpkg and afterwards a fix of the dependencies. Afterwards I was able to run "do-release-upgrade" again without seeing that "immediate configuration" error.