Ubuntu
update-manager package

An unresolvable problem occured while calculating the upgrade

Bug #146644 reported by tomcat42
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update-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

I'm using the 64Bit server version of ubuntu with the xubuntu-desktop. After upgrade from from feisty to gutsy tribe 5, (deinstalling amarok and the kde-packages needed for amarok), with trying to do "apt-get dist-upgrade" I get the error message "Could not calculate the upgrade - An unresolvable problem occured 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."
The shell tells me, that the following packages have unresolved dependencies: transcode: Depends: xterm but it is not going to be installed or x-terminal-emulator
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

What can I do ? I'm new to Linux and Ubuntu (one year) and do not know how to solve the dependencies. Since it tells me that it is a bug I report it here.

Tags: feisty2gutsy
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tomcat42 (tom-hug) wrote :

Following commands do NOT fix the problem:

 apt-get --fix-broken install
dpkg --configure -a

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport. Please attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/* to this report. Thanks, Michael

Changed in update-manager:
status: New → Incomplete
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tomcat42 (tom-hug) wrote :

Sorry, I do not have this system anymore, I reinstalled feisty, because somehow the error disappeared (after several apt-get updates, maybe a new package had the fix included), but then I run into one bug after the other, so I decided, that gutsy is not yet stable enough.

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Malcolm Parsons (malcolm-parsons) wrote :

I also observed this bug in Gutsy at the weekend.
It has since gone away.

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Paul Dufresne (paulduf) wrote :

Thanks tomcat32 for the newer info.
But since no logs can be obtained, I am closing this bug.
Please continue report bugs!

Changed in update-manager:
assignee: nobody → dufresnep
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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