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update-manager package

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

Bug #873830 reported by Avinash Murthy
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Bug Description

Hello,

I was trying to make the upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10 when prompted for the upgrade but I received the following error when trying to do so.

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

I also get the following error when I click 'Install Updates' under update manager
"This error could be caused by required additional software packages which are missing or not installable. Furthermore there could be a conflict between software packages which are not allowed to be installed at the same time."

"The following packages have unmet dependencies:

ia32-libs: "

Thanks a ton for the help :)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.150.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDmesg.txt:
 [ 22.912209] skge 0000:01:08.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both
 [ 25.652459] EXT4-fs (sda7): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,commit=0
 [ 25.655357] EXT4-fs (sda5): re-mounted. Opts: ,commit=0
 [ 32.370900] show_signal_msg: 18 callbacks suppressed
 [ 32.370904] unity-2d-panel[2184]: segfault at 100000007 ip 00007f5ba43bb3d2 sp 00007fff14844540 error 4 in libdconf-qt.so.0.0.0[7f5ba43b6000+c000]
Date: Fri Oct 14 09:28:31 2011
GConfNonDefault: /apps/update-manager/check_new_release_ignore=
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_IN
 LC_MESSAGES=en_IN.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-10-14 (0 days ago)

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Avinash Murthy (avinash-murthy) 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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Dan Hinojosa (dhinojosa) wrote :

main.log came up with the following:

2011-10-13 23:59:17,844 ERROR not handled expection:
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/tmp/update-manager-tyABNr/oneiric", line 7, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())

  File "/tmp/update-manager-tyABNr/DistUpgradeMain.py", line 199, in main
    if app.run():

  File "/tmp/update-manager-tyABNr/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1670, in run
    return self.fullUpgrade()

  File "/tmp/update-manager-tyABNr/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1627, in fullUpgrade
    if not self.askDistUpgrade():

  File "/tmp/update-manager-tyABNr/DistUpgradeController.py", line 895, in askDistUpgrade
    if not self._checkFreeSpace():

  File "/tmp/update-manager-tyABNr/DistUpgradeController.py", line 861, in _checkFreeSpace
    with_snapshots = self._is_apt_btrfs_snapshot_supported()

  File "/tmp/update-manager-tyABNr/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1005, in _is_apt_btrfs_snapshot_supported
    apt_btrfs = apt_btrfs_snapshot.AptBtrfsSnapshot()

  File "/tmp/update-manager-tyABNr/apt_btrfs_snapshot.py", line 85, in __init__
    self.fstab = Fstab(fstab)

  File "/tmp/update-manager-tyABNr/apt_btrfs_snapshot.py", line 53, in __init__
    entry = FstabEntry.from_line(line)

  File "/tmp/update-manager-tyABNr/apt_btrfs_snapshot.py", line 31, in from_line
    return FstabEntry(*line.split())

TypeError: __init__() takes at most 7 arguments (9 given)

2011-10-13 23:59:17,844 DEBUG running apport_crash()
2011-10-13 23:59:18,368 DEBUG enabling apt cron job

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

@Dan: this problem you are describing is a different bug and its a duplicate of #873411

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

Please attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/* to this report.

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Avinash Murthy (avinash-murthy) wrote :

Hi, thanks again for the help guys, here is a link to a zip file containing all the files in the directory. I wasn't able to attach entire directories through the 'Add attachment' link below, so I decided to zip it and upload it into my host.

www.inventivetrance.com/dist-upgrade-files.zip

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Dan Hinojosa (dhinojosa) wrote :

@Michael, The error message pkgProblemResolver is more in line with this ticket. I just posted the main.log. I'll try again and post some of the other logs. ;)

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Dan Hinojosa (dhinojosa) wrote :
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Dan Hinojosa (dhinojosa) wrote :
Ka-Hing Cheung (kahing)
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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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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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

That version is no more maintained

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