ubuntu-minimal package no longer exists - halts upgrade

[John Stevenson]

Upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10 using the update-manager.

The process updates the sources lists for the new distribution and then starts to calculate what needs to be upgraded. I seem to have ubuntu-minimal meta package installed and the upgrade cannot find this package in 11.10.

I am told that this issue should be reported using bug-buddy

ubuntu-bug update-manager

The update manager then reverts the sources lists back to the original and closes out of the upgrade process.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.150.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 14 09:44:43 2011
GConfNonDefault:
 /apps/update-manager/check_new_release_ignore=
 /apps/update-manager/first_run=false
 /apps/update-manager/show_details=true
 /apps/update-manager/window_size=(600,600)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-10-14 (0 days ago)

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Could you please attach the output of:
$ head /var/lib/apt/lists/*archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_oneiric_main_binary-*_Packages

to this report?

This may well be a overloaded server that is returning incomplete package information.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 873468 , so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.