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update-manager package

The package 'nvidia-glx' is marked for removal but it's in the removal blacklist

Bug #249612 reported by Duane on 2008-07-17

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #249329: Intrepid dist-upgrade fails - 'nvidia-glx' is marked for removal but it's in the removal blacklist. Edit Remove

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

Bug Description

I ran this command (found it from a previous post)

duane@duane-olddell:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade --mode=desktop

It ran for about a minute and the the following:

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.

Restoring original system state

Aborting
Reading package lists: Donefeisty-security/multiverse Packages: 96 tricted Packages: 12
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
duane@duane-olddell:~$

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Duane (duane-cmshdvideo) wrote on 2008-07-17:

main.log Edit (16.2 KiB, text/plain)

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Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout) wrote on 2008-07-17:

Upgrading from feisty, he gets the error message:
The package 'nvidia-glx' is marked for removal but it's in the removal blacklist

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Hew (hew) wrote on 2008-07-20:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #249329, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.