[Bug 989164] Re: precise headless server upgrade failed

[Jens Langner]

I am having the same issue here when trying to upgrade a 11.10 system to
12.04 (precise). And the mentioned workaround does not work. as soon as
I try to "apt-get remove libjpeg62-dev" I get the following error:

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root at uranus:/etc# sudo apt-get remove libjpeg62-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libjpeg-dev libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg-turbo8-dev libjpeg8 libjpeg8-dev liblzma5 r-base-core r-base-dev
Suggested packages:
  ess r-doc-info r-doc-pdf r-mathlib r-base-html texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-extra texinfo texi2html
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libjpeg62-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libjpeg-dev libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg-turbo8-dev libjpeg8-dev liblzma5
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libjpeg8 r-base-core r-base-dev
3 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 1 to remove and 971 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/20.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1593 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libjpeg-dev'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
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Title:
  precise headless server upgrade failed

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

Bug description:
  I attempted a headless server upgrade from oneiric to precise by

  ssh server
  screen -RD
  sudo do-release-upgrade

  I've done this exact set of steps for several releases without issue.
  This time, I received this output:

  
  Get:362 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main subversion-tools all 1.6.17dfsg-3ubuntu3 [136 kB]                      
  Fetched 141 MB in 6s (160 kB/s)                                                                                                  

  Upgrading
  apport: unrecognized service
  Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)                                                                                                        
  Exception during pm.DoInstall():  E:Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libjpeg-dev'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)

  Could not install the upgrades

  The upgrade has aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state. A 
  recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a). 

  Please report this bug in a browser at 
  http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+filebug and 
  attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ to the bug report. 
  E:Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libjpeg-dev'. Please 
  see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2) 

  
  Upgrade complete 

  The upgrade has completed but there were errors during the upgrade 
  process. 

  To continue please press [ENTER]

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