Offline upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 fails (using kubuntu 8.10 alternate iso)

[Sharad Popli]

I am attempting an offline distribution upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 using the kubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386.iso

The process terminates with this message: "Could not calculate the upgrade"

Here is the system information:

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

$ apt-cache policy update-manager
update-manager:
  Installed: 1:0.87.30
  Candidate: 1:0.87.30
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.87.30 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

And attached are the logs from /var/log/dist-upgrade/

Anyone else stumbled upon this?

[Jon Charge (seropith)]

I would like to attempt reproduction. What are the approximate hardware specifications to include H.D.D. of your target system?

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

Could you please purge gnumeric
sudo apt-get remove --purge gnumeric

and retry the upgrade ? Tell us if it helps.

[Sharad Popli (sharad.popli)]

Hello and thanks for your responses.

@ Jean-Baptiste Lallement:
It didn't work. However we now possibly have a different error.

/var/log/dist-upgrade# grep -i error *
main.log:2008-12-09 12:14:14,645 DEBUG svg pixbuf loader failed (Error displaying image)
main.log:2008-12-09 12:14:19,428 DEBUG running doUpdate() (showErrors=False)
main.log:2008-12-09 12:14:28,493 DEBUG running doUpdate() (showErrors=True)
main.log:2008-12-09 12:16:43,846 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'A essential package would have to be removed'

Some relevant lines from main.log:
2008-12-09 12:16:15,498 DEBUG Marking 'ubuntu-desktop' for upgrade
2008-12-09 12:16:15,509 DEBUG Marking 'kubuntu-desktop' for upgrade
2008-12-09 12:16:16,503 DEBUG metapkg 'ubuntu-desktop' installed but markedDelete
2008-12-09 12:16:16,504 DEBUG metapkg 'ubuntu-desktop' installed but markedDelete
2008-12-09 12:16:16,535 DEBUG The package 'ubuntu-desktop' is marked for removal but it's in the removal blacklist
2008-12-09 12:16:43,846 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'A essential package would have to be removed'

Some historical context that may be useful. This was a clean Ubuntu 8.04 install and the kubuntu-desktop part was later added via the Internet. Now, I'm trying to offline upgrade using the kubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386.iso (from the HD itself mounted using the loopback option)

The logs are attached.

@ JonCharge:
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you asking about the hard disk partitions? If so, here is the relevant output of df -h:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg1-root 12G 5.2G 6.2G 46% /
/mnt/vbox/down/kubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386.iso
                      696M 696M 0 100% /media/cdrom0

Anything else?

[xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount)]

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