update-manager displays error message: could not calculate the upgrade, a unresolvable problem occured while calculating the upgrade

Bug #182230 reported by sChTeFaN
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

from /var/log/dist-upgrade

Log time: 2008-01-11 23:44:43.944683
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ERROR:root:Dist-upgrade failed: 'E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.'

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sChTeFaN (stefan-sickert) wrote :
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gspat (gspat) wrote :

Could not calculate the upgrade

An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report.

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Bubba Siggler (bud3) wrote :

Hi I just had this error:root:Dist-upgrade here is the log

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Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse) wrote :

This is probably a dupe of Bug #181762

The error actually looks to me like a problem with OOo language packs.

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Mike Moon (biz4mikemoon) wrote :
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Could not calculate the upgrade

A unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport.

Log time: 2008-01-14 07:01:15.117587
Installing libgnomekbd-common as dep of libgnomekbd2
Installing pidgin-data as dep of libpurple0
Installing openoffice.org-core as dep of openoffice.org-gnome
Installing libicu38 as dep of openoffice.org-core
Installing libneon27-gnutls as dep of openoffice.org-core
Installing openoffice.org-common as dep of openoffice.org-core
Installing update-manager-core as dep of update-manager
Installing openoffice.org-base-core as dep of openoffice.org-writer
Installing python-uno as dep of openoffice.org-writer
Installing openoffice.org-draw as dep of openoffice.org-impress
Installing libgnome-window-settings1 as dep of gnome-control-center
Installing libgpod-common as dep of libgpod3
Installing libsgutils1 as dep of libgpod-common
Installing compiz-core as dep of compiz-plugins
Installing consolekit as dep of dbus
Installing libbonobo2-common as dep of libbonobo2-0
Installing openoffice.org-core as dep of openoffice.org-calc
Installing compizconfig-backend-gconf as dep of compiz-gnome
Starting
Starting 2
Investigating openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb
Package openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb has broken dep on openoffice.org-core
  Considering openoffice.org-core 19 as a solution to openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb 8
  Removing openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb rather than change openoffice.org-core
Investigating openoffice.org-l10n-en-za
Package openoffice.org-l10n-en-za has broken dep on openoffice.org-core
  Considering openoffice.org-core 19 as a solution to openoffice.org-l10n-en-za 8
  Removing openoffice.org-l10n-en-za rather than change openoffice.org-core
Investigating compizconfig-backend-gconf
Package compizconfig-backend-gconf has broken dep on libcompizconfig-backend-gconf
  Considering libcompizconfig-backend-gconf -2 as a solution to compizconfig-backend-gconf 0
  Added libcompizconfig-backend-gconf to the remove list
  Fixing compizconfig-backend-gconf via remove of libcompizconfig-backend-gconf
Investigating language-support-en
Package language-support-en has broken dep on openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb
  Considering openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb 8 as a solution to language-support-en 14
  Added openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb to the remove list
Package language-support-en has broken dep on openoffice.org-l10n-en-za
  Considering openoffice.org-l10n-en-za 8 as a solution to language-support-en 14
  Added openoffice.org-l10n-en-za to the remove list
  Fixing language-support-en via keep of openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb
  Fixing language-support-en via keep of openoffice.org-l10n-en-za
Investigating openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb
Package openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb has broken dep on openoffice.org-core
  Considering openoffice.org-core 19 as a solution to openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb 8
  Removing openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb rather than change openoffice.org-core
Investigating openoffice.org-l10n-en-za
Package openoffice....

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Aaron - this bug is in fact a duplicate of bug 181762 and I will mark it as such. In the future if you suspect a bug is a duplicate of another feel free to tag the bug as 'likely-dup' in addition to adding a comment as to which bug it is a suspected duplicate of. Thanks!

Changed in update-manager:
status: New → Triaged
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Ben Nieman (thespy0) wrote :

This is for Hardy right. When the Alpha 3 of Hardy came out is when this problem started right?

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David Martin (davidmartin-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Ben, yea this is for Hardy Alpha 3.

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