I have a newly installed Ubuntu Server 9.10 amd64 in VMware Server and I want to upgrade it to latest build of lucid. Updates installed correctly but update-manager reported that system now is in unstable state and i have to report a bug :) root@app:/var/log/dist-upgrade# cat apt.log Log time: 2010-02-21 17:30:32.724435 Log time: 2010-02-21 17:30:36.446468 Log time: 2010-02-21 17:33:30.408783 Installing libdevmapper1.02.1 as Depends of dmsetup Installing libk5crypto3 as Depends of libkrb5-3 Installing libkrb5support0 as Depends of libkrb5-3 Installing gcc-4.4-base as Depends of libstdc++6 Installing libbz2-1.0 as Depends of bzip2 Installing tomcat6 as Depends of tomcat6-docs Installing tomcat6-common as Depends of tomcat6 Installing libtomcat6-java as Depends of tomcat6-common Installing libservlet2.5-java as Depends of libtomcat6-java Installing libc6 as Depends of iproute Installing libdb4.8 as Depends of iproute Installing python2.6-minimal as Depends of python-minimal Installing libssl0.9.8 as Depends of python2.6-minimal Installing libglib2.0-0 as Depends of libglib2.0-data Installing libdevmapper-event1.02.1 as Depends of lvm2 Installing linux-image-virtual as Depends of linux-virtual Setting NOT as auto-installed (direct Depends of pkg in APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections) Installing linux-image-2.6.32-14-virtual as Depends of linux-image-virtual Setting NOT as auto-installed (direct Depends of pkg in APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections) Installing perl-base as Depends of perl Installing perl-modules as Depends of perl Installing libept0 as Depends of aptitude Installing openjdk-6-jre-headless as Depends of icedtea-6-jre-cacao Installing openjdk-6-jre-lib as Depends of openjdk-6-jre-headless Installing netcat-openbsd as Depends of ubuntu-minimal Setting NOT as auto-installed (direct Depends of pkg in APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections) Installing ureadahead as Depends of ubuntu-minimal Setting NOT as auto-installed (direct Depends of pkg in APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections) Installing libnih1 as Depends of ureadahead Installing libsqlite3-0 as Depends of python2.6 Installing e2fslibs as PreDepends of e2fsprogs Installing grub-common as Depends of grub-pc Installing gettext-base as Depends of grub-common Installing libudev0 as Depends of udev Installing initramfs-tools as Depends of udev Installing initramfs-tools-bin as Depends of initramfs-tools Installing libnih-dbus1 as PreDepends of mountall Installing libplymouth2 as PreDepends of mountall Installing libpng12-0 as Depends of libplymouth2 Installing diffutils as PreDepends of diff Installing tzdata as Depends of tzdata-java Installing sensible-utils as Depends of debianutils Installing libmagic1 as Depends of file Installing dhcp3-common as Depends of dhcp3-client new important dependency: libsasl2-modules Installing libsasl2-modules as Recommends of libsasl2-2 new important dependency: gnupg-curl Installing gnupg-curl as Recommends of gnupg Starting Starting 2 Done root@app:/var/log/dist-upgrade# tail -20 main.log 2010-02-21 17:33:59,489 DEBUG disabling apt cron job (0755) 2010-02-21 18:20:29,482 DEBUG plugins for condition 'StartUpgrade' are '[]' 2010-02-21 18:20:29,483 DEBUG plugins for condition 'lucidStartUpgrade' are '[]' 2010-02-21 18:20:29,484 DEBUG plugins for condition 'from_karmicStartUpgrade' are '[]' 2010-02-21 18:20:29,484 DEBUG quirks: running StartUpgrade 2010-02-21 18:20:29,484 DEBUG skipping 'README' (no '.') 2010-02-21 18:20:29,484 DEBUG check if patch '_usr_sbin_install-docs.3533d3b8e8f08f78c95550a7edcbe316' needs to be applied 2010-02-21 18:20:29,484 DEBUG check if patch '_usr_sbin_install-docs.268d21f1f1ed5f7a19fffef645ac4d52' needs to be applied 2010-02-21 18:20:29,485 INFO cache.commit() 2010-02-21 18:20:29,486 DEBUG failed to SystemUnLock() (E:Not locked) 2010-02-21 18:20:29,609 ERROR Exception during pm.DoInstall() Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/tmpE9P2Xh/DistUpgradeView.py", line 182, in run res = pm.DoInstall(self.writefd) SystemError: E:Couldn't configure pre-depend libplymouth2 for mountall, probably a dependency cycle. 2010-02-21 18:20:29,677 ERROR SystemError from cache.commit(): installArchives() failed 2010-02-21 18:20:29,678 DEBUG can't find apport 2010-02-21 18:20:29,757 DEBUG enabling apt cron job 2010-02-21 18:20:29,759 DEBUG Running PostInstallScript: './xorg_fix_proprietary.py' 2010-02-21 18:20:29,840 DEBUG enabling apt cron job