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update-manager package

Cannot upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04.1

Bug #1040830 reported by Trond-trondhuso
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Bug Description

When I am doing an upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04.1 I am seeing this error:
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

 This can be caused by:
 * Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
 * Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
 * Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu

If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the
'update-manager' package and include the files in
/var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.134.12.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-3.30~lucid1-generic 2.6.38-rc4
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-3-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Aug 23 20:44:12 2012
GConfNonDefault:
 /apps/update-manager/check_new_release_ignore=
 /apps/update-manager/first_run=false
 /apps/update-manager/show_versions=false
 /apps/update-manager/window_size=(600,600)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstate.tar.gz: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz'
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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Trond-trondhuso (trond-trondhuso) wrote :
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Could you please attach the file /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz from the affected system? It appears apport did not have permissions to do so at the time you filed this bug.

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Incomplete
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Trond-trondhuso (trond-trondhuso) wrote : Re: [Bug 1040830] Re: Cannot upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04.1

On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 20:42 +0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Could you please attach the file /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-
> clone_system_state.tar.gz from the affected system? It appears apport
> did not have permissions to do so at the time you filed this bug.
>
> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => High
>
> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
 Hi Steve. I have found the incident was related to two things:
1) not correct gpg-keys for virtualbox and spotify. marked them out in
sources.list and removing keys in apt-key.

2) It was blocked by this: apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-all

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

The problem is very likely caused by xorg-edgers ppa. You can use ppa-purge to uninstall it and revert to the packages from the official repository. Then run the release upgrade again and tell if it helped.

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Indeed, that sounds like a case of ppa override packages conflicting with the core system; that's not really something update-manager can fix.

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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Trond-trondhuso (trond-trondhuso) wrote :

On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 00:33 +0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Indeed, that sounds like a case of ppa override packages conflicting
> with the core system; that's not really something update-manager can
> fix.
>
> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => Invalid
 Steve,

There might should be a warning especially about this conflict. This
because the edger package causes Ubuntu to start in only 2d mode and
with an awful lot of warnings and errors in .xsession_errors file.

I experienced this when upgrading from 10.04 to 12.04.1.

Maybe there should be a list of "dangerous" ppa/debs that must be
uninstalled the correct way before an upgrade (or even the
update-manager system could fix this?)

Trond

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