Update Manager could not calculate the upgrade

[David Martin]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I have just done a clean install of Hardy Heron Alpha 3 and there are 85 updates available.

When clicking 'Install Updates' from within the Update Manager a menu pops up:

"Not all updates can be installed
Run a partial upgrade, to install as many updates as possible."

So I select 'Partial Upgrade' and the loading bar comes up "Preparing the upgrade"...

Then after a few seconds the following error appears:

"Could not calculate the upgrade

A unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport."

I have managed to repeat this problem without getting any further with installing the updates, any help would be appreciated.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jan 13 10:01:00 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
Package: yelp 2.21.1-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: yelp
ProcCwd: /home/dave
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux desktop 2.6.24-3-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 3 23:30:29 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[David Martin (davidmartin-deactivatedaccount)]

I've managed to get the updates installed, by clicking close on the 'Run a partial upgrade' menu then clicking on 'Install Updates' again.

[David Martin (davidmartin-deactivatedaccount)]

Now there are more updates and I'm back to getting the original problem again, but this time I can't click close on it and 'Install Updates'.

Anybody else having this problem?

[Iulian Udrea (iulian)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I get the same error message when I select Partial Upgrade, however when I Close the window and select Install Updates it works fine.

I'll attach some screenshots.

[The Devil Is A Squirrel (justanotheradress)]

Same here. After closing the first message and installing quite a lot of updates, the message comes up again, and about 30 updates (Distribution updates) or so are just gray and cannot be installed.

[Yfrwlf (yfrwlf)]

I get the same thing in the logs about openoffice and such, but doing an upgrade from the command line for me shows a problem with libflickrnet. This is after a fresh Hardy alpha 3 install. Perhaps the libflickrnet package issue is a completely different problem, or perhaps that is what is preventing the upgrade via the GUI too. The apt.log doesn't mention that package though.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  compiz-core compiz-gnome compiz-plugins libgpod3 openoffice.org-calc
  openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw
  openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-impress
  openoffice.org-style-human openoffice.org-writer python-uno
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up libflickrnet2.1.5-cil (25277-6) ...
* Installing 1 assembly from libflickrnet2.1.5-cil into Mono
! Assembly /usr/share/cli-common/policies.d/libflickrnet2.1.5-cil/policy.2.1.FlickrNet.dll does not exist
dpkg: error processing libflickrnet2.1.5-cil (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libflickrnet2.1.5-cil
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Iulian Udrea (iulian)]

Hello Yfrwlf,

There is a bug reported with the libflickrnet package. Please take a look at bug #182130 . Additionally any further discussion regarding the bug #182130 should occur in the other report.