Comment 13 for bug 384314

I'm running Precise, and for some reason I got a partial distribution upgrade from the software update; It suggested to remove "125 Obsolete packages". Which included a lot of the i386 libraries (I at some point explicitly installed ia32-libs to have those, and I never uninstalled that package.)
I also explicitly installed lvm2 and use lvm2 partitions... but somehow synaptic lists lvm2 in "auto removable" category.

I don't know what steps I can do to go from clean install (I installed this machine only a few weeks ago) to the situation were synaptics wants to remove critical packages... but this should not happen at all! If I wasn't paying enough attention and trusted Synaptic, I would now be left with an unbootable system.