Upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04 fails with "pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages"
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
Release: 18.04
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$ do-release-upgrade -d
<snip>
Checking package manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating the changes
Calculating the changes
Could not calculate the upgrade
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.
This was likely caused by:
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
Please use the tool 'ppa-purge' from the ppa-purge
package to remove software from a Launchpad PPA and
try the upgrade again.
<snip>
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubuntu-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-128-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.21
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Dec 13 00:22:39 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-05-26 (2027 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: ubuntu-
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2020-12-12 (0 days ago)
| Brain (brain) wrote | #1 |
| Brain (brain) wrote | #3 |
After a lot of investigation this turned out to be an issue with libsane. After reinstalling it I managed to upgrade to 20.04.
It would be however very useful to get some debug information which package is blocking the update.