upgrade to 8.10 failed

[ibrent]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Running:
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

trying to upgrade to 8.10

the upgrade was in the 'Setting new software channels' phase and gave the error:
Could not calculate the upgrade
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade. This can be caused by: "Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu * Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade in the bugreport.

the last interesting parts of /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log are:
2008-10-31 07:49:06,507 DEBUG Removing 'libflashsupport' (Distro PostUpgradeRemove rule)
2008-10-31 07:49:06,508 DEBUG Purging 'xorg-common' (Distro PostUpgradePurge rule)
2008-10-31 07:49:06,509 DEBUG Purging 'libgl1-mesa' (Distro PostUpgradePurge rule)
2008-10-31 07:49:06,509 DEBUG Purging 'ltsp-client' (Distro PostUpgradePurge rule)
2008-10-31 07:49:06,616 DEBUG Purging 'ltspfsd' (Distro PostUpgradePurge rule) 2008-10-31 07:49:06,721 DEBUG Purging 'python2.3' (Distro PostUpgradePurge rule)
2008-10-31 07:49:06,723 DEBUG quirks: running intrepidPostDistUpgradeCache 2008-10-31 07:49:06,723 DEBUG running intrepidPostDistUpgradeCache
2008-10-31 07:49:06,836 DEBUG Removing 'landscape-client' (custom landscape stub removal rule)
2008-10-31 07:49:07,053 DEBUG Installing 'landscape-common' (custom landscape-common stub install rule (to ensure its nor marked for auto-remove))
2008-10-31 07:49:07,158 DEBUG found nvidia-glx-177 video driver 2008-10-31 07:49:07,376 DEBUG Marking 'kubuntu-desktop' for upgrade
2008-10-31 07:49:07,984 DEBUG The package 'postgresql-plperl-8.2' is marked for removal but it's in the removal blacklist
2008-10-31 07:49:07,990 DEBUG UI version is 4.0

the apt.log file is attached.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade to this bug report?

This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem.

[ibrent (brent-laminack)]

Thanks, they're attached.

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Jean-Baptiste Lallement <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. Could you please attach the files in /var/log/dist-
> upgrade to this bug report?
>
> This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem.
>
> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> upgrade to 8.10 failed
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291547
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[ibrent (brent-laminack)]

one more, didn't have permissions first time.

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Jean-Baptiste Lallement <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. Could you please attach the files in /var/log/dist-
> upgrade to this bug report?
>
> This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem.
>
> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> upgrade to 8.10 failed
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291547
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you.

From the main.log
2008-11-10 20:25:40,920 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'A essential package would have to be removed'

The apt-term.log is 2 months older than the upgrade. It shows an error with the "locales" package and doesn't match with the error you're experiencing.