Ubuntu
update-manager package

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

Bug #834261 reported by Scott Sweeny
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update-manager (Ubuntu)
Invalid
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Bug Description

When I start update-manager after upgrading today, I get the following message:

Could not calculate the upgrade

An 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.'

And the list of available packages is blank, but the window says I can upgrade 45 packages (same with the launcher icon).

An 'apt-get upgrade' works as expected however.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.152.16
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.14-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Aug 25 20:52:03 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-21 (4 days ago)

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Scott Sweeny (ssweeny) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the log files from '/var/log/dist-upgrade/' to this bug report as separate attachments? Thanks in advance.

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Alberto Carlos (albertiniqmc) wrote :

Hi, when i tried to upgrade to 11.10 this bug appears. here are my logs

Rocko (rockorequin)
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote :

/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log reports a number of broken packages when I try to upgrade, eg compiz and unity (which have been installed from natty-updates or natty-proposed).

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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote :

For me the problem turned out to be a multiarch upgrade issue. After removing ia32-libs (sudo apt-get remove ia32-libs, which of course removed all the 32 bit apps from my system) it worked.

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Malaika Boyd (kobaltkween) wrote :

I recently upgraded to Oneiric, and am having this same problem, including being able to run apt-get upgrade without a problem. I also have a large number of packages listed as broken in my apt.log, and in the most recent entry (from yesterday) are errors from NvidiaDetection and an error from Brasero saying that it's not upgradable.

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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

This version is no more supported

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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