Unable to update/upgrade distro & installed packages

[Elias Van Ootegem]

I run a somewhat customized version of ubuntu (cinammon desktop, KDE, Gnome3 and LXFE), which I recently upgraded from 13.10 to 14.04. Ever since then, I've been having some issues with packages I had installed.

That is to be expected, but lately, I get an error message whenever I log in (probably the updater runs into problems). So when I now tried to update my packages manually, I ran into this problem. I can, no longer, keep my software up to date, it would seem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-29.53-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon
Date: Thu Jul 3 16:37:24 2014
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-23 (40 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

[Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)]

Hello; I'd try apt-get purging ubuntu-desktop and maybe kubuntu-desktop, performing the upgrade, and then trying to re-install these packages. That might be enough to allow the dependency tools to figure out an upgrade path.

Thanks

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[michael decker (mdecker333)]

Updater "ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core"