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update-manager package

[update-manager] Getting upgrade prerequisites failed

Bug #154008 reported by KuSh on 2007-10-18

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #153980: 7.04->7.10 "Upgrade" fails: "Getting upgrade prerequisites failed". Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

The update-manager from feisty to gutsy.

the /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log file contains :

2007-10-18 20:09:37,978 INFO release-upgrader version '0.81' started
2007-10-18 20:09:39,427 DEBUG lsb-release: 'feisty'
2007-10-18 20:09:39,427 DEBUG _pythonSymlinkCheck run
2007-10-18 20:09:40,941 DEBUG checkViewDepends()
2007-10-18 20:09:40,942 DEBUG getRequiredBackports()
2007-10-18 20:11:15,779 DEBUG marking 'release-upgrader-apt' for install
2007-10-18 20:11:15,896 DEBUG marking 'release-upgrader-dpkg' for install
2007-10-18 20:15:16,084 DEBUG pre-requists item: '<pkgAcquire::ItemIterator object: Status: 3 Complete: 0 Local: 0 IsTrusted: 1 FileSize: 1924684 DestFile:'/tmp/tmp8UpiTs/backports/partial/release-upgrader-dpkg_1.14.5ubuntu11.2_i386.udeb' DescURI: 'http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/r/release-upgrader-dpkg/release-upgrader-dpkg_1.14.5ub'
2007-10-18 20:15:16,084 DEBUG pre-requists item: '<pkgAcquire::ItemIterator object: Status: 3 Complete: 0 Local: 0 IsTrusted: 1 FileSize: 1307096 DestFile:'/tmp/tmp8UpiTs/backports/partial/release-upgrader-apt_0.6.46.4ubuntu10.3_i386.udeb' DescURI: 'http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/r/release-upgrader-apt/release-upgrader-apt_0.6.46.4u'
2007-10-18 20:15:16,085 ERROR no backports found but setupRequiredBackports() called??!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 18 20:17:24 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu3.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
ProcCwd: /home/kush
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux sakura 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Sun Sep 23 19:50:39 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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KuSh (kush-knowledge) wrote on 2007-10-18:

Dependencies.txt Edit (7.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (35.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (670 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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archer71 (archer71chen) wrote on 2007-10-21:

main.log Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain)

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Daniel Duron (daniel-duron) wrote on 2007-10-21:

main.log Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain)

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vito (ovitorio) wrote on 2007-10-21:

There is no need for me to attach my main.log since it is identical to all main.log files posted here already. There is an obvious problem with this upgrade. I'm struggling with it the third day and no solution found so far.

OK!...

Right now when I'm writing I have a little change to positive in Update Manager behavior. It finally get prerequisites and looks like it is proceeding further on. To get to this point I had to disable "universe"/"community supported" in my sources list. I was prompted that some of packages installed on my PC are no longer supported by Canonical and I would be prompted to remove them after upgrade completed or I would be able to choose keeping them if I wish.

Right now I am in the 3-d step - Fetching the Upgrades. Let's hope this was a solution.

I think if the Upgrade process is so picky to what is currently supported by Canonical and what is not then the procedure should have started from backing up a local sources.list file, replacing it with one that can for sure satisfy the Upgrade and then to proceed with the upgrade. Then after the Upgrade is completed a user could be prompted about changes in files support by Canonical and be given a choice either to use a new sources.list or to get back to his own one.

Otherwise the Upgrade is a nightmare. It was much easier for me just to install it fresh.