[Bug 789453] [NEW] Update Manager gives error, all sorts of programs are broken

[Samuel Berney]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: update-manager

Hello, I am using Natty 11.04, according to configuration files, however
these problems started the first time I tried to upgrade to 11.04 from
10.10. The upgrade never did a graceful finish, so I am not sure if the
upgrade is truly finished.

The following error occurs on update-manager startup:

"An unresolvable problem occurred 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.'"

This error started when I tried to upgrade to Natty. Since then a lot of
things have been broken. I have tried updating all packages, and I have
updated all that I can with sudo apt-get --install-suggests -f upgrade
and dist-upgrade. I had to do a dpkg --reconfigure -a (maybe -d also)...
I saved as much output as I could. I got some strange errors from all
over the place. I am not going to go into the vast quantity of them.

"dpkg --get-selections | grep hold" produces nothing.

The following is an excerpt from my terminal:

"sam at orange:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Failed
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 dbus : Depends: upstart-job
        Depends: upstart (>= 0.6.3-6) but it is not going to be installed
 hostname : PreDepends: upstart-job
 kbd : Depends: console-setup but it is not going to be installed
 logrotate : Depends: cron or
                      anacron but it is not going to be installed or
                      fcron but it is not going to be installed
 module-init-tools : Depends: upstart-job
 netbase : Depends: initscripts but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: upstart-job
           Recommends: ifupdown
 plasma-widget-networkmanagement : Depends: knm-runtime (= 0.9~svngit20110408-0ubuntu2) but it is not going to be installed
 procps : Depends: upstart-job
          Depends: initscripts but it is not going to be installed
 udev : Depends: upstart-job
 util-linux : Depends: upstart-job
 x11-common : Depends: upstart-job
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages."

** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Update Manager gives error, all sorts of programs are broken

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  Hello, I am using Natty 11.04, according to configuration files,
  however these problems started the first time I tried to upgrade to
  11.04 from 10.10. The upgrade never did a graceful finish, so I am not
  sure if the upgrade is truly finished.

  The following error occurs on update-manager startup:

  "An unresolvable problem occurred 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.'"

  This error started when I tried to upgrade to Natty. Since then a lot
  of things have been broken. I have tried updating all packages, and I
  have updated all that I can with sudo apt-get --install-suggests -f
  upgrade and dist-upgrade. I had to do a dpkg --reconfigure -a (maybe
  -d also)... I saved as much output as I could. I got some strange
  errors from all over the place. I am not going to go into the vast
  quantity of them.

  "dpkg --get-selections | grep hold" produces nothing.

  The following is an excerpt from my terminal:

  "sam at orange:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Calculating upgrade... Failed
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   dbus : Depends: upstart-job
          Depends: upstart (>= 0.6.3-6) but it is not going to be installed
   hostname : PreDepends: upstart-job
   kbd : Depends: console-setup but it is not going to be installed
   logrotate : Depends: cron or
                        anacron but it is not going to be installed or
                        fcron but it is not going to be installed
   module-init-tools : Depends: upstart-job
   netbase : Depends: initscripts but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: upstart-job
             Recommends: ifupdown
   plasma-widget-networkmanagement : Depends: knm-runtime (= 0.9~svngit20110408-0ubuntu2) but it is not going to be installed
   procps : Depends: upstart-job
            Depends: initscripts but it is not going to be installed
   udev : Depends: upstart-job
   util-linux : Depends: upstart-job
   x11-common : Depends: upstart-job
  E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages."