update-manager can't upgrade

[adieb]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I wanted to upgrade intrepid(64bit) to jaunty. It told me, it couldn´t:

2009-02-18 23:09:04,091 DEBUG Marking 'ubuntu-desktop' for upgrade
2009-02-18 23:09:05,688 DEBUG Can't mark 'ubuntu-desktop' for upgrade (E:Kann Probleme nicht korrigieren, Sie haben gehaltene defekte Pakete.)
2009-02-18 23:10:11,971 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'Can not mark 'ubuntu-desktop' for upgrade'

This "(E:Kann Probleme nicht korrigieren, Sie haben gehaltene defekte Pakete.)" means:
cannot solve problems. you are holding defect packages...

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the log files from '/var/log/dist-upgrade/' to this bug report as separate attachments? Thanks in advance.

[badawiuol (danielbadawi-uol)]

hi

I have the same problem
since apt cannot mark ubuntu-desktop for upgrade, I decided to remove it! :)

$ sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop
$ sudo apt-get autoremove

and then try to upgrade to jaunty.

$ update-manager -d

an error related to ubuntu-desktop happen... but, the upgrade still working and now, my intrepid is upgrading to jaunty!

I dont know if is the best 'workaround', but worked for me.

sorry for my poor english

thanks!

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This may well be a temporary problem, if not, please attach the logs that Brian asked for.

[magaio (magaio-deactivatedaccount)]

I am having this problem too. I uninstalled the ubuntu-desktop package, the jaunty upgrade button appeared. I reinstalled ubuntu-desktop, and the error occurs again. There are consipicuous errors in the log file toward the end (attached).

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

@badawiuol and magaio:
Please attach the full logs (including main.log) from /var/log/dist-upgrade. Please also run:
$ lsb_release -a
and add the information here as well.

[Bob Herrmann (bob-jadn)]

Note that leaving out "sudo" causes this... a brief dialog pops up (too fast to read.)

$ update-manager -d
authenticate 'jaunty.tar.gz' against 'jaunty.tar.gz.gpg'
Segmentation fault

Then running correctly (sudo update-manager -d) works fine.

[Matt C (mvc1095)]

I got this error too, upgrading to karmic.

[Matt C (mvc1095)]

/var/log/dist-upgrade/term.log is empty, so not attached.

Output of lsb_release -a follows:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
Codename: jaunty

/etc/apt/sources.list attached.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

From apt.log:

Package ubuntu-desktop has broken dep on indicator-applet-session
  Considering indicator-applet-session 0 as a solution to ubuntu-desktop 10000
    Reinst Failed early because of libempathy-common
    Reinst Failed because of libempathy30
    Reinst Failed because of indicator-session
Done

[Matt C (mvc1095)]

For the record, I was able to upgrade successfully after removing the ubuntu-desktop package, like the previous posters.

[Antony.S (antony-seedhouse)]

Me too, though I got an error about not being able to install ubuntu-desktop which I assumed would stop the upgrade, but it didn't

[dacha (dacha01)]

Hi to all. I'm trying tu update Linux quick 2.6.35-30-generic #61-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 11 17:52:57 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux to 11.04 but I gat this:

Could not calculate the upgrade

An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be
caused by held packages.

This can be caused by:
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Running the current 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 bug report.

Restoring original system state

Aborting
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done

I try to change repository list (to copy default to /etc/apt/sources.list), to change update server and always got these message.
My logs are attached

[Joachim R. (jro)]

I have this bug since I updated from 11.04 to 11.10 on all upgraded computers. A clean install does'nt have this problem.

[Joachim R. (jro)]

And sorry but priority should be raised since to Hight since end-users with no command-line skills cannot have security upgrade anymore !