do-release-upgrade aborts due to unresolvable "broken" packages
This bug report was converted into a question: question #224878: do-release-upgrade aborts due to unresolvable "broken" packages.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
doing 'do-release-
E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages."
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Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.156.14.11
ProcVersionSign
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.
com.ubuntu.
com.ubuntu.
com.ubuntu.
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: update-manager
Symptom: ubuntu-
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2013-01-19 (0 days ago)
affects: | update-manager (Ubuntu) → ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
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: graphics- drivers graphics- drivers
1) Install ppa-purge: sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
2) Add graphics-drivers ppa: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/
3) Update package index: sudo apt-get update
4) Purge the PPA: sudo ppa-purge ppa:oibaf/
Finally restart your computer and see if the upgrade is still failing.