I somehow did get it to upgrade now:-) From my mind: * Fixed the manual installation of mountall 2.10 by re-installing 1.0 * I did run apt-get upgrade which did seem to work: sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: apt-utils autofs bash bind9-host busybox-initramfs coreutils dash debianutils diff dpkg e2fslibs e2fsprogs grub-common initramfs-tools iproute libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libc-bin libc6 libdbi-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libedit2 libgc1c2 libpam-modules libreadline5 libreadline6 libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules libss2 libsub-name-perl linux-image-virtual mawk mountall munin-node nano nscd ntp openssh-client openssh-server perl perl-base perl-modules php5-cli php5-common puppet python python-minimal python2.6 python2.6-minimal ubuntu-minimal udev upstart util-linux vim-common vim-tiny The following packages will be upgraded: acpid adduser apache2-mpm-worker apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2.2-common apt aptitude augeas-lenses base-files base-passwd bash-completion bsd-mailx bsdutils bzip2 console-setup console-terminus cpio cron debconf debconf-i18n dhcp3-client dhcp3-common dmidecode dmsetup eject facter file findutils gawk gcc-4.4-base geoip-database git-core gnupg gpgv grep grub gzip hostname ifupdown initscripts insserv iputils-ping irb1.8 iso-codes javascript-common kbd klibc-utils laptop-detect less libacl1 libapr1 libatm1 libattr1 libaugeas-ruby1.8 libaugeas0 libblkid1 libbsd0 libbz2-1.0 libcap2 libclass-accessor-perl libcomerr2 libcurl3-gnutls libcwidget3 libdb4.7 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbus-1-3 libdevmapper1.02.1 libept0 libevent-1.4-2 libexpat1 libfreetype6 libfribidi0 libgcc1 libgcrypt11 libgdbm3 libgeoip1 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libgnutls26 libgpg-error0 libgpm2 libgssapi-krb5-2 libgssglue1 libidn11 libjs-jquery libjs-prototype libk5crypto3 libkeyutils1 libklibc libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 libldap-2.4-2 liblocale-gettext-perl liblockfile1 libmagic1 libmdbtools libmysql-ruby libmysql-ruby1.8 libmysqlclient16 libncurses-ruby1.8 libncurses5 libncursesw5 libnet-snmp-perl libnewt0.52 libnfsidmap2 libnss-ldapd libopenssl-ruby1.8 libpam-ldap libpam-runtime libpam0g libpci3 libpcre3 libpopt0 librack-ruby librack-ruby1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 librecode0 librpcsecgss3 libruby1.8 libselinux1 libsepol1 libshadow-ruby1.8 libsigc++-2.0-0c2a libslang2 libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-ruby libsqlite3-ruby1.8 libssl0.9.8 libstdc++6 libtasn1-3 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtimedate-perl libudev0 libusb-0.1-4 libuuid1 libwrap0 libx11-6 libx11-data libxapian15 libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxml2 libxmuu1 linux-firmware locales lockfile-progs login logrotate lsb-base lsb-release lzma make makedev mdbtools mime-support module-init-tools mount mysql-client-5.1 mysql-common mysql-server mysql-server-5.1 mysql-server-core-5.1 ncurses-base ncurses-bin net-tools netbase nfs-common nslcd ntpdate nullmailer openssl os-prober passwd patch pciutils portmap procps psmisc python-apt python-central python-gnupginterface python-support rdoc1.8 readline-common recode resolvconf rsync rsyslog ruby1.8 sed shared-mime-info sqlite3 sudo sysv-rc sysvinit-utils tar tasksel tasksel-data tcpd tzdata ubuntu-keyring ucf unattended-upgrades unzip update-manager-core w3m wget whiptail x11-common xauth xkb-data xml-core zlib1g 217 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 56 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/86.0MB of archives. * Did install redmine (the original goal of this upgrade;-) * Did install man which triggered an upgrade of mountall and others: sudo apt-get install man Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Note, selecting man-db instead of man The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libmysqlclient15off x11-common Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: bsdmainutils cpp cpp-4.4 groff-base initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-bin libc-bin libc6 libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau1 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 libgmp3c2 libmpfr1ldbl libnih-dbus1 libnih1 libplymouth2 libpng12-0 man-db mountall nscd plymouth udev upstart Suggested packages: wamerican wordlist whois vacation cpp-doc gcc-4.4-locales groff glibc-doc watershed Recommended packages: plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text plymouth-theme The following NEW packages will be installed: bsdmainutils cpp cpp-4.4 groff-base initramfs-tools-bin libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau1 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 libgmp3c2 libmpfr1ldbl libnih-dbus1 libnih1 libplymouth2 libpng12-0 man-db plymouth The following packages will be upgraded: initramfs-tools libc-bin libc6 mountall nscd udev upstart 7 upgraded, 17 newly installed, 0 to remove and 49 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 7,625kB/16.0MB of archives. * Did run apt-get dist-upgrade again sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: autofs5 diffutils gettext-base libbind9-60 libdb4.8 libdns64 libisc60 libisccc60 libisccfg60 liblwres60 linux-image-2.6.32-19-virtual munin-common netcat-openbsd puppet-common sensible-utils ureadahead The following packages will be upgraded: apt-utils autofs bash bind9-host busybox-initramfs coreutils dash debianutils diff dpkg e2fslibs e2fsprogs grub-common iproute libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libdbi-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libedit2 libgc1c2 libpam-modules libreadline5 libreadline6 libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules libss2 libsub-name-perl linux-image-virtual mawk munin-node nano ntp openssh-client openssh-server perl perl-base perl-modules php5-cli php5-common puppet python python-minimal python2.6 python2.6-minimal ubuntu-minimal util-linux vim-common vim-tiny 49 upgraded, 16 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. All of the above steps did run nicely...