Ubuntu upgrade crashes

[Deon Bennett]

Could not calculate the upgrade:

The package 'postgresql-plperl-8.4' is marked for removal but it is in the removal blacklist.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.134.12.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-42.95-generic 2.6.32.59+drm33.24
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-42-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 9cd5d7021c841f6850cdeecadad89722
CheckboxSystem: e704f33cc0866ff0f0256a33de39ea1c
Date: Mon Oct 8 20:12:53 2012
GConfNonDefault:
 /apps/update-manager/check_new_release_ignore=
 /apps/update-manager/first_run=false
 /apps/update-manager/show_versions=false
 /apps/update-manager/window_size=(646,600)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstate.tar.gz: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz'
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog: