14.04 upgrade failed from 13.10

[David Gilmore]

I'm doing an upgrade from 13.10 to 14.04 but the "Software Updater" fails with the same message as bug#1239910 "Cannot calculate upgrade"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.205.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-20.35-generic 3.11.10.6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-20-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: i386
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Sun May 18 10:54:18 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-12 (186 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release i386 (20131016.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2014-05-18 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

[David Gilmore (dmgaust)]

I was told to run this command and got this error. Is there something wrong?

:~$ ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core

(process:3861): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed

[David Gilmore (dmgaust)]

Procedure to upgrade to 14.04 from 13.10 until it fails is
Step 1. Start "Software Updater"
             After it has run a dialog box comes up and says:
             "The software on this computer is up to date.
               However, Ubuntu 14.04 is now available (you have 13.10)
Step 2. Click on the "Upgrade..." button next to the "OK" button.
             Next I get the normal "Authenticate" dialog box and put is my password
             then click on the "Authenticate" button.
Step 3. The Release Note dialog box comes up and I click on the "Upgrade" button
Step 4. "do-release-upgrade" tool starts
Step 5. then the "Distribution Upgrade" starts then stops with another dialog box saying:
             "Third party sources disabled
               Some third party entries in your sources.list were disabled. You can re-enable them after
               the upgrade with the 'software-properties' tool or your package manager."
Step 6. Click on "Close" button to continue the process.
              Files are Fetched
              Once all the files are Fetched something goes wrong
Step 7. A new dialog box comes up and it reads:
             "Could not calculate the upgrade
              An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.
              This can be caused by:
              * Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
              * Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
              * Unoffical software packages not provided by Ubuntu
              If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the command 'ubuntu-bug
             ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a terminal."
Step 8. "Close" button on dialog is clicked to end procedure.
               Restore Original State of System

My Question is "What is the procedure/s for eliminating the causes of this problem?"

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Reviewing the files from your upgrade attempt you seem to have enabled a PPA that provides Xorg packages. This will prevent the upgrade as that PPA contains different versions of packages essential to Ubuntu. The page, https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa, contains details on to how to revert to the official Xorg packages for the xorg-edgers PPA. Instructions for reverting to official Xorg packages should be similar for the PPA that you have enabled.

[David Gilmore (dmgaust)]

Problem resolved by removing the Broken package then redoing the
installation.
Question: Is there a better way of alerting a user to Broken packages in
the installation process than hours searching the internet to find a
solution? Which I did.

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Brian Murray <email address hidden> wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1069133 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069133
>
> Reviewing the files from your upgrade attempt you seem to have enabled a
> PPA that provides Xorg packages. This will prevent the upgrade as that
> PPA contains different versions of packages essential to Ubuntu. The
> page, https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa, contains details
> on to how to revert to the official Xorg packages for the xorg-edgers
> PPA. Instructions for reverting to official Xorg packages should be
> similar for the PPA that you have enabled.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid
>
> ** Tags added: ppa xorg-edgers-ppa
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1069133
> Get upgrade error 12.04 - 12.10 "Could not determine upgrade" - xorg
> from ppa
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1320570
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> Title:
> 14.04 upgrade failed from 13.10
>
> Status in “ubuntu-release-upgrader” package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> I'm doing an upgrade from 13.10 to 14.04 but the "Software Updater"
> fails with the same message as bug#1239910 "Cannot calculate upgrade"
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
> Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.205.6
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-20.35-generic 3.11.10.6
> Uname: Linux 3.11.0-20-generic i686
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
> Architecture: i386
> CrashDB: ubuntu
> Date: Sun May 18 10:54:18 2014
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-12 (186 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release i386
> (20131016.1)
> MarkForUpload: True
> PackageArchitecture: all
> SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2014-05-18 (0 days ago)
> VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
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Regards,
David Gilmore
dmgaust at gmail dot com