[Bug 990740] Re: upgrading from lucid to precise fails

[Tytus Kurek]

I have experience exactly the same issue. Running the following command:

apt-get -f install -o APT::Immediate-Configure=false python-minimal

results in another error:

E: Couldn't configure pre-depend multiarch-support for libnih-dbus1,
probably a dependency cycle.

Please, find the detailed instructions of what I did to bypass the above
issues on my technical blog at:

http://tkurek.blogspot.com/2013/04/issues-with-python-minimal-
during.html

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Title:
  upgrading from lucid to precise fails

Status in “python-defaults” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  = IMPORTANT NOTICE =

  If you got here, chances are your upgrade from lucid to precise
  failed, and you're now trying to rescue it by hand with apt.

  Please don't just comment on this bug or reopen it. It isn't helpful,
  there are too many different issues here, already.

  Rather file a new bug, by running "ubuntu-bug update-manager"
  If you can't do that, because apport is broken, file a bug by hand, and attach the contents of /var/log/dist-upgrade. Tag the bug lucid2precise.

  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Filing_bugs_at_Launchpad.net
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUpdateManager

  If you didn't use update-manager (or do-release-upgrade from update-
  manager-core) to do your upgrade please do so next time instead of
  trying to upgrade with only apt. You'll get much better results.

  How to get past this:
  # apt-get install -o APT::Immediate-Configure=false -f apt python-minimal
  # apt-get -f install
  # apt-get dist-upgrade

  = ORIGINAL REPORT =

  Trying to "apt-get dist-upgrade" from lucid to precise I get the
  following error:

  E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'python-
  minimal'.Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for
  details. (2)

  So I tried to upgrade just python-minimal and it failed the same:

  root at linux:/var/tmp# apt-get install python-minimal
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    libtext-csv-xs-perl libdbd-csv-perl libgs8 cpp-4.1
  Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
  The following extra packages will be installed:
    libapt-inst1.4 libcurl3-gnutls librtmp0 lsb-release python python-apport python-apt python-apt-common python-gdbm python-lxml python-mysqldb python-pkg-resources python-problem-report
    python-pycurl python-pysqlite2 python-simplejson python-software-properties python-support python-twisted-bin python-twisted-core python-zope.interface python2.7 python2.7-minimal
  Suggested packages:
    lsb python-doc python-tk python-apt-dbg python-gtk2 python-vte python-apt-doc python-gdbm-dbg python-lxml-dbg python-egenix-mxdatetime python-mysqldb-dbg python-distribute python-distribute-doc
    libcurl4-gnutls-dev python-pycurl-dbg python-pysqlite2-doc python-pysqlite2-dbg python-twisted-bin-dbg python-glade2 python-qt3 python-wxgtk2.8 python2.7-doc binfmt-support
  Recommended packages:
    xz-lzma python-openssl python-pam python-serial
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    python2.5 python2.5-minimal
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    libapt-inst1.4 librtmp0 python-apt-common python2.7 python2.7-minimal
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    libcurl3-gnutls lsb-release python python-apport python-apt python-gdbm python-lxml python-minimal python-mysqldb python-pkg-resources python-problem-report python-pycurl python-pysqlite2
    python-simplejson python-software-properties python-support python-twisted-bin python-twisted-core python-zope.interface
  19 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 2 to remove and 718 not upgraded.
  Need to get 0B/7,492kB of archives.
  After this operation, 3,121kB disk space will be freed.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
  E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'python-minimal'.Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)

  Clearly this is an acceptable situation when trying to upgrade from
  one LTS to another.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: python-minimal 2.6.5-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Apr 28 16:43:25 2012
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: python-defaults

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