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apt-get dist-upgrade fails due to bogus(?) unmet dependencies

Bug #146614 reported by Chris Cheney
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: apt

I got this message when trying to apt-get dist-upgrade, regular apt-get upgrade worked ok. I also tried purging all listed packages and reinstalling them. They all installed ok using apt-get install but when trying to run apt-get dist-upgrade I got the same message again.

Note that xclock, xfd, xlogo, xterm are all installed even though it complains about them not going to be installed.

Chris Cheney

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root@ccheney-desktop:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Failed
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  xbase-clients: Depends: xclock but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: xfd but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: xlogo but it is not going to be installed
  xorg: Depends: xterm but it is not going to be installed or
                 x-terminal-emulator
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

Oh yea a few important details:

Up to date Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) amd64 with apt version 0.7.6ubuntu11

If you have any other questions the quickest way is to contact me on IRC my nick is calc.

Chris

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

I have been told something to the effect that it is normal for apt to complain about completely random packages being uninstallable when it is actually another package that is the problem. If this is true then the perl problem in the archive is probably the fault of this error. But it still would be nice if apt could complain about packages that actually have problems instead of packages that are perfectly fine. It is extremely confusing even to advanced users the way it currently complains.

Chris

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xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thanks for reporting this bug, but unfortunately Gutsy is no longer supported, therefore we are closing this bug report. If the issue persists you may be able to get help for things like this at #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net for unsupported versions.

Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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