Comment 4 for bug 306287

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?