[dist-upgrader] Upgrade to Dapper -> Can't install 'ubuntu-desktop'

[mole0815]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-desktop

When Upgrading to Dapper Drake i get the following message:

"Can't install 'ubuntu-desktop'

It was impossible to install a required package. Please report this as a bug. "

"Could not calculate the upgrade

A unresolvable problem occured while calculating the upgrade. Please report this as a bug. "

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

Please attach your sources.list

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Hi Sebastian,

please attach the /var/log/dist-upgrade-apt.log and /var/log/dist-upgrade.log

Thanks,

Sebastian

[mole0815 (sebastiankriese)]

Hi,

i solved the problem. There was a problem with the splashy package: after removing this package manually i could upgrade to dapper.

Sorry for reporting this as a bug..

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for this update and no need to applogize :)

I still would be interessted in the logs (just to get a better idea what went wrong in the first place) that Sebastian asked for.

Thanks,
 Michael

[Manuel Aristarán (maristaran)]

Hi Michael,

I'm having the exact same problem than mole0815 had. I've posted my logs a few days ago in bug #41023

Thanks!

Manuel Aristarán
Buenos Aires, Argentina

[koshari (holto2go)]

i also get the same error, here are my lists

2006-06-05 11:01:56,869 DEBUG Foreign: openoffice.org2-core openoffice.org2-writer openoffice.org2-draw openoffice.org2-impress python-uno openoffice.org2-calc openoffice.org2-math openoffice.org2-common skype openoffice.org2-base ttf-opensymbol openoffice.org2 bjfilter-2.5 openoffice.org2-l10n-en-us sun-j2re1.5 pstocanonbj openoffice.org2-java-common openoffice.org2-help-en-us openoffice.org2-gnome openoffice.org2-evolution wine libcnbj-2.5
2006-06-05 11:01:56,870 DEBUG Obsolete: avidemux-2.1.0 dcpp bmp-docklet automatix taglib-1.4 mozilla-thunderbird mozilla-thunderbird-dev gtk-gnutella amule-common amule mozilla-thunderbird-typeaheadfind frostwire rhythmbox libgpod0 mozilla-thunderbird-inspector sbackup libgpod-common
2006-06-05 11:01:56,881 DEBUG updateSourcesList()
2006-06-05 11:01:56,886 DEBUG rewriteSourcesList()
2006-06-05 11:01:56,888 DEBUG examining: 'deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted'
2006-06-05 11:01:56,888 DEBUG entry 'deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted' updated to new dist
2006-06-05 11:01:56,888 DEBUG examining: 'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted'
2006-06-05 11:01:56,889 DEBUG entry 'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted' updated to new dist
2006-06-05 11:01:56,889 DEBUG examining: 'deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted'
2006-06-05 11:01:56,889 DEBUG entry 'deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted' updated to new dist
2006-06-05 11:01:56,890 DEBUG examining: 'deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe'
2006-06-05 11:01:56,890 DEBUG entry 'deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe' updated to new dist
2006-06-05 11:01:56,890 DEBUG examining: 'deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted'
2006-06-05 11:01:56,890 DEBUG entry 'deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted' updated to new dist
2006-06-05 11:01:56,891 DEBUG examining: 'deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted'
2006-06-05 11:01:56,891 DEBUG entry 'deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted' updated to new dist
2006-06-05 11:01:56,891 DEBUG examining: 'deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe'
2006-06-05 11:01:56,891 DEBUG entry 'deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe' updated to new dist
2006-06-05 11:01:56,892 DEBUG examining: 'deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe'
2006-06-05 11:01:56,892 DEBUG entry 'deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe' updated to new dist
2006-06-05 11:01:56,892 DEBUG examining: 'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy universe main restricted multiverse'
2006-06-05 11:01:56,892 DEBUG entry 'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe main restricted multiverse' updated to new dist
2006-06-05 11:01:56,893 DEBUG examining: 'deb http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/ binary/'
2006-06-05 11:01:56,895 DEBUG entry '# deb http://wine.sourceforge....

[Kentling (kent-rasmussen)]

I've got the exact two error messages, and nowhere to go...
Looking in the logs, it says it can't install ubuntu-dekstop because of dependencies.

When I try to mark ubuntu-desktop manually in Synaptic, I get an error about firefox-gnome-support not being mark-able. When I try to mark firefox-gnome-support manually, I get the following error:

Depends: firefox (=1.0.8-0ubuntu5.10) but 1.0.7-0ubuntu20 is to be installed

So, do I need to have these versions installed in order to be able to upgrade? I assume the reason that ubuntu-desktop isn't on my machine was that I wanted to uninstall these old versions of software. I'd rather not download openoffice 1.9 again, so that I can upgrade to a more current version, if you know what I mean. similarly, I have Firefox 1.5 running currently; do I need to downgrade this program in order to upgrade my OS? Hopefully I'm missing something, because that doesn't make sense to me.

Looking again at this dependency conflict, I'm not certain it would all work, even if I did re-install all these old programs. (i.e., I need firefox-gnome-support to get ubuntu-desktop, and I need Firefox1.0.8 to get firefox-gnome-support, but I get Firefox 1.0.7 with Ubuntu-desktop?)

Please help. I'm glad to know that mole0815 resolved this simply, but is there a general principle to work around/fix?

I have my /var/log/dist-upgrade-apt.log and /var/log/dist-upgrade.log handy, but I'm not sure how to attach them here (I'm assuming you don't want that in plain text in this post)

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

@Kent: Please attach them to this bugrpeort, use the "Add attachment" link on the left-hand side of this page.

[Manuel Aristarán (maristaran)]

"Can't install ubuntu-desktop"

[Manuel Aristarán (maristaran)]

"Can't install ubuntu-desktop"

[Manuel Aristarán (maristaran)]

I'm having the same problem, I've attached my logs.

Thanks!

[Kentling (kent-rasmussen)]

Sorry, I found it now, on the right side, under "bug attachments"/Add

This is added more for posterity's sake at the moment

[Kentling (kent-rasmussen)]

Same as above, except that I'm not sure what this is. Binary?

[Kentling (kent-rasmussen)]

Now that I get how these attachments are posted, I'll give some update on what I've done.

The three attached files are all from before an upgrade that I have now succedded in doing (hence the comment on posterity). These copies were made when I has having the above trouble upgrading.

But, just in case this helps someone else, what had happened was that I had locked the Firefox1.0.x version in Synaptic in order to keep from downloading things that I wasn't using (having already moved on to 1.5.x). This created the dependency conflict I mentioned above. When I removed the lock and installed firefox 1.0.8 (somehow I don' t think I should have had to do this...), I could reinstall ubuntu-desktop (I hadn't thought that I should need to do this either, but as I went back to this package in Synaptic, I noted a comment about this package being useful to keep around for upgrades...)

With ubuntu-desktop installed, the upgrade went smoothly, and three days of downloading later, I'm up and running in dapper.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

bug 48776, bug 40552 and bug 47095 are all related, the effect is the same and possibly the root cause as well.