[Bug 1075235] Re: Upgrad-manager U 11.04 to 11.10 fails

[bsalem]

That was "Sun Microsystems" from 1997 to 2004, and if you chortle that
Sun is out of business, it is because they put all their energy and
capital into the web and java and let the hardware and OS rest on its
own. They lost the lead in processor performance and did not promote
their OS like they should have.

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Title:
  Upgrad-manager U 11.04 to 11.10 fails

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

Bug description:
  An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
  E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

   This can be caused by:
   * Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
   * Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
   * Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu

  The first two items don't apply. I went into the software manager and looked at "other" packages and removed one that I
  knew was unsupported. Several  other packages got removed too. Tried the upgrade again and it failed in the same way. Do I have a corrupted package list?  I guess I am going to need shell commands to diagnose this.

  My /home is within the boot partition and that is how Ubuntu installs. It would be nice for there to be an option at install to
  create a separate partition for /home so that in case an system cannot be upgraded, it can be reinstalled without threatening /home. I was going to do all that instead of trying upgrades and did one upgrade from 10.10 to11.04 which as soon as I got there went out of support. Versions of Ubuntu should have longer support cycles. And apparently the upgrade process is not very robust, either.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.150.5.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-16.67-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-16-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Nov  5 08:40:27 2012
  GConfNonDefault:
   /apps/update-manager/check_new_release_ignore=
   /apps/update-manager/first_run=false
   /apps/update-manager/show_details=true
   /apps/update-manager/window_size=(600,600)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2012-11-05 (0 days ago)

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