Comment 7 for bug 1043517

Then I'll have to agree with you that it will remain a mistery. Though I am
certain that I had Nautilus, Gnome, Synaptic, etc. So It should have been
somehow available and somehow was marked as not-installed which would
explain why the upgrade failed and required manual recovery.

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Steve Langasek <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1017001 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1017001
>
> > I suppose that because the bug report was created during the upgrade it
> may
> > have not been installed yet.
>
> No; the logs clearly show that you did not have the ubuntu-desktop
> package installed at the start of the upgrade. So it must have been
> removed at some previous point.
>
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> Title:
> package resolvconf 1.63ubuntu15 failed to install/upgrade:
> ErrorMessage: pre-dependency problem - not installing resolvconf
>
> Status in “resolvconf” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Failed to install during upgrade to Ubuntu 12 LTS
> hostname also failed
> finally reboot ended in filesystem / is not ready
> Manual recovery using
> apt-get upgrade -f
> first reboot failed
> second reboot came up, although a bit unstable
> Still checking...
>
> ProblemType: Package
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
> Package: resolvconf 1.63ubuntu15
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24
> Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic i686
> ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Wed Aug 29 11:24:55 2012
> ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: pre-dependency problem - not installing
> resolvconf
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> PackageArchitecture: all
> SourcePackage: resolvconf
> Title: package resolvconf 1.63ubuntu15 failed to install/upgrade:
> ErrorMessage: pre-dependency problem - not installing resolvconf
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-08-29 (0 days ago)
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