do-release-upgrade aborts due to unresolvable "broken" packages

Bug #1101708 reported by Darian Ryder

This bug report was converted into a question: question #224878: do-release-upgrade aborts due to unresolvable "broken" packages.

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Bug Description

doing 'do-release-upgrade' results in "An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages."

root@3xc3l717ud3:/var/log/dist-upgrade# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.156.14.11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-36.57-generic 3.2.35
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jan 19 10:40:57 2013
GsettingsChanges:
 com.ubuntu.update-manager first-run false
 com.ubuntu.update-manager launch-time 1350814951
 com.ubuntu.update-manager window-height 500
 com.ubuntu.update-manager window-width 600
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2013-01-19 (0 days ago)

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Sami Jaktholm (sjakthol) wrote :

You seem to have some unsupported experimental graphic drivers installed from a third party PPA and those packages are breaking your update.

Judging from the information you provided, you've used ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers in the past. If that's the case, please open terminal and follow these steps to remove those packages from your machine:
1) Install ppa-purge: sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
2) Add graphics-drivers ppa: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
3) Update package index: sudo apt-get update
4) Purge the PPA: sudo ppa-purge ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers

Finally restart your computer and see if the upgrade is still failing.

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
affects: update-manager (Ubuntu) → ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
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Darian Ryder (lifusion) wrote :
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Thanks Brian,

It did the trick. seems to have also needed, besides the downgrading of the video drivers, to remove most i386 compatibility libraries.

terminal output follows:
darian@3xc3l717ud3:/repos/work/bgu_ws$ sudo ppa-purge ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
Updating packages lists
PPA to be removed: oibaf graphics-drivers
comm: file 2 is not in sorted order
Package revert list generated:
 libdrm2/precise libdrm-dev/precise libdrm-intel1/precise
libdrm-nouveau1a/precise libdrm-radeon1/precise libg3dvl-mesa/precise
libgl1-mesa-dev/precise libgl1-mesa-dri/precise
libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental/precise libgl1-mesa-glx/precise
libglapi-mesa/precise libkms1/precise libtxc-dxtn0/precise libvpx1/precise
libxatracker1/precise mesa-common-dev/precise xserver-xorg-video-ati/precise
xserver-xorg-video-intel/precise xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/precise
xserver-xorg-video-radeon/precise

Disabling oibaf PPA from
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/oibaf-graphics-drivers-precise.list
Disabling oibaf PPA from
/etc/apt/sources.list.d.UpgradeFix/oibaf-graphics-drivers-precise.list
Updating packages lists
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Release 'precise' for 'libg3dvl-mesa' was not found
E: Release 'precise' for 'libtxc-dxtn0' was not found
Unable to find an archive "precise" for the package "libg3dvl-mesa"
Unable to find an archive "precise" for the package "libtxc-dxtn0"
Unable to find an archive "precise" for the package "libg3dvl-mesa"
Unable to find an archive "precise" for the package "libtxc-dxtn0"
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
  libdrm-dev libdrm-intel1{b} libdrm-nouveau1a{b} libdrm-radeon1{b} libdrm2{b} libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dri{b}
  libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental libgl1-mesa-glx{b} libglapi-mesa{b} libkms1 libvpx1 libxatracker1 mesa-common-dev xserver-xorg-video-ati
  xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-radeon
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libdrm-nouveau2{u} libtxc-dxtn0{u}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 18 downgraded, 2 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 5,197 kB of archives. After unpacking 108 MB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libdrm-radeon1 : Breaks: libdrm-radeon1:i386 (!= 2.4.32-1ubuntu1) but 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.1 is installed.
 libdrm-radeon1:i386 : Breaks: libdrm-radeon1 (!= 2.4.39-0ubuntu0.1) but 2.4.32-1ubuntu1 is to be installed.
 libgl1-mesa-dri : Breaks: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 (!= 8.0.2-0ubuntu3) but 8.1~git1206081121.640409~gd~p is installed.
 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 : Breaks: libgl1-mesa-dri (!= 8.1~git1206081121.640409~gd~p) but 8.0.2-0ubuntu3 is to be installed.
 libgl1-mesa-glx : Breaks: libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 (!= 8.0.2-0ubuntu3) but 8.1~git1206081121.640409~gd~p is installed.
 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 : Breaks: libgl1-mesa-glx (!= 8.1~git1206081121.640409~gd~p) but 8.0.2-0ubuntu3 is to be installed.
 libglapi-mesa : Breaks: libglapi-mesa:i386 (!= 8.0.2-0ubuntu3) but 8.1~git1206081121.640409~gd~p is installed.
 libglapi-mesa:i386 : Breaks: libglapi-mesa (!= 8.1~git1206081121.640409~gd~p) but 8.0.2-0ubuntu3 is to be installed.
 libg3dvl-mesa : Depends: libdrm-nouveau1a (>= 2....

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Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker.

Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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