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update-manager package

Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages

Bug #146608 reported by Bremm on 2007-09-29

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Could not calculate the upgrade

A unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:
'E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.'

If I'm right, the package "wammu" depends of a new Python version to be upgraded.

System is Xubuntu 7.10 and update-manager version is 1:0.78

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Bremm (bremm) wrote on 2007-09-29:

Doing the same that upgrade-manager does, but in command line:

$ LANG=C sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Failed
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libfontconfig1: Depends: fontconfig-config (= 2.4.2-1.2ubuntu2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2007-10-01:

Thanks for your bugreport.

This sounds like a transient problem. The archive seems to have been inconsistant for some time. Is this still a problem for you?

Thanks,
Michael

Changed in update-manager:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Bremm (bremm) wrote on 2007-10-01: Re: [Bug 146608] Re: Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages

2007/10/1, Michael Vogt <email address hidden>:
> Thanks for your bugreport.
>
> This sounds like a transient problem. The archive seems to have been
> inconsistant for some time. Is this still a problem for you?

Hi Vogt,

Yes, it sounds funny. Bug was gone a few hours later and it happened
just with "dist-upgrade" option -- I guess the update-manager when
handled uses the same. My workaround was very simple, using just
"upgrade" instead of "dist-upgrade" on command line.

Thanks for asking.
--
Márcio Bremm -- http://vtnc.org/

Pessoas não mudam, apenas mascaram sua real identidade.
People don't change, only mask their real identity.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2007-11-14:

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed after archive syncing. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.

Changed in update-manager:
status:	Incomplete → Invalid

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Randy LeJeune (lejeunerandy-fastmail) wrote on 2008-01-30:

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E:Error.pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages

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Anthony Lovell (alovell) wrote on 2008-01-30:

8.04

Calculating upgrade... Failed
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
evolution-data-server: Depends: evolution-data-server-common (= 2.21.5.1-0ubuntu1) but 2.21.90-0ubuntu2 is to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

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Aine Pedersen (aine-pedersen) wrote on 2008-01-30:

In my case the distribution is Ubuntu 8.04, but I got the same message as the very fist one,
I had also previously got that reported by Anthony Lovell, and something else came up today, I have no idea if it is linked, but it read:
SIOCGIFFLAG error:no such device