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

[bsalem]

If Linux is going to do better than Windows, things like supporting
legacy and doing upgrades have to be completely bulletproof, and major
tools like nautalus have to work flawlessly through all revs. The Idea
that releases fall out of support after 18 months is not going to help
you win over Windows users. Connonical needs to assure its customers
that a released version will be supported and will get backports for
much longer. At Sun we gave five years of support per release, so even
while I was there Solaris 2.5 was still supported. If Connonical can't
make that kind of assurance because it is rolling revs too fast and
trying to remain bleeding edge than it ought to rachett back its cycle
and provide a more conservative support model. That is especially true
when it has so many packages in its repositories. The only reason I
tried to do an upgrade was because of the large number of packages I had
installed. If I shouldn't use what is available, then maybe I should go
use a much more conservative distro, such as Slackware. You can't get it
both ways, you can't be bleeding edge and make available every package
known to man and them surprise your user by saying "Oh, that isn't
supported. BZZT, reinstall" Because I'll go looking for a distro OTHER
than yours.

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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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