Binary package hint: update-manager
Many upgrade failures reported during upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 are caused by packages installed from PPAs.
A very common PPA is xorg-edgers.
Update manager should at least manage this specific case and determine if a package from xorg-edgers is blocking the upgrade, or better, it should report to the user if a non-official package from any PPA and which package is blocking the upgrade.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.150
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 2 14:21:46 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-02-21 (69 days ago)
Marking triaged as I have also seen this many times and can confirm. Since this can effect the users overall experience with the system upgrade process, I am going to give it a 'Low' status over 'Wishlist'. Also, I have seen this is a very prominent problem in the community when performing an upgrade to a newer version of ubuntu.