release upgrade 23.10 not working due to ubuntu-desktop broken packages (seen in main.log)

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Calculating the changes

Could not calculate the upgrade

An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the
command 'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a terminal. If
you want to investigate this yourself the log files in
'/var/log/dist-upgrade' will contain details about the upgrade.
Specifically, look at 'main.log' and 'apt.log'.

Restoring original system state

Aborting
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root@stef-nagios:/var/log/dist-upgrade# ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:23.04.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-36.37-generic 6.2.16
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Fri Nov 10 07:11:27 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-04-03 (220 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20230223)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to lunar on 2023-11-10 (0 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2023-04-25T12:45:08.386034

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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