[Bug 1100992] Re: Unable to run update manager

Jorge jcmcobra at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 00:05:28 UTC 2013 

Unless my memory is totally failing me, or I've managed to inadvertently
install a program, there should be no third party repositories.  Of course,
I have only a vague notion of what third party repositories are.

The output for 'sudo apt-get upgrade' follows:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  aisleriot alsa-utils apparmor apport apport-gtk apt apt-transport-https
  apt-utils apt-xapian-index aptdaemon aptitude apturl apturl-common aspell
  avahi-daemon base-files bash bash-completion bind9-host binutils bluez
  bluez-alsa bluez-cups bluez-gstreamer brasero brasero-common brltty
  bsdmainutils bzip2 ca-certificates checkbox command-not-found compiz
  compiz-core compiz-gnome compizconfig-backend-gconf console-setup
consolekit
  coreutils cpp cron cups cups-bsd cups-client dbus-x11 debianutils
  desktop-file-utils dictionaries-common dnsmasq-base dnsutils doc-base dpkg
  dvd+rw-tools e2fslibs e2fsprogs empathy empathy-common eog espeak
  espeak-data evince evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common
  file-roller fontconfig-config foomatic-db-engine friendly-recovery
  fuse-utils gcalctool gcc gconf2 gconf2-common gdb gedit gedit-common
  ghostscript ghostscript-x gnome-bluetooth gnome-control-center
  gnome-disk-utility gnome-icon-theme gnome-keyring gnome-media gnome-menus
  gnome-nettool gnome-orca gnome-power-manager gnome-screensaver
gnome-session
  gnome-session-bin gnome-session-canberra gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-sudoku
  gnome-system-monitor gnome-terminal gnome-terminal-data gnome-user-guide
  gnome-user-share gnomine grub-common grub-pc gstreamer0.10-alsa
  gstreamer0.10-nice gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio gstreamer0.10-tools gstreamer0.10-x gtk2-engines
  gtk2-engines-murrine gucharmap guile-1.8-libs gvfs gvfs-backends gvfs-bin
  gvfs-fuse gwibber gwibber-service hplip hplip-data ibus ibus-gtk
ibus-table
  ifupdown indicator-application indicator-messages indicator-session
  indicator-sound info initscripts intel-gpu-tools iproute iptables
  iputils-ping jockey-common jockey-gtk kbd language-selector-common
  launchpad-integration libaa1 libacl1 libasound2 libasound2-plugins
  libaspell15 libatasmart4 libatk1.0-0 libatm1 libattr1 libaudio2
  libavahi-client3 libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libavahi-gobject0
  libavc1394-0 libblkid1 libbluetooth3 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common
libbsd0
  libbz2-1.0 libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libcaca0 libcairo-perl
  libcairo2 libcairomm-1.0-1 libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk0
  libcanberra-pulse libcanberra0 libcap2 libcdparanoia0 libcomerr2
  libcompizconfig0 libcroco3 libcups2 libcupscgi1 libcupsdriver1
libcupsimage2
  libcupsmime1 libcupsppdc1 libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libcwidget3 libdatrie1
  libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdbusmenu-qt2 libdjvulibre21 libdrm-intel1
  libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 libdv4 libedit2 libelf1 libenchant1c2a libespeak1
  libexempi3 libexif12 libexpat1 libflac8 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6
libfuse2
  libgail-common libgail18 libgcc1 libgconf2-4 libgcrypt11 libgd2-xpm
libgdbm3
  libgdu-gtk0 libgdu0 libgksu2-0 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglade2-0
  libglib-perl libglib2.0-0 libglibmm-2.4-1c2a libglu1-mesa
libgnome-keyring0
  libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomekbd-common libgnomevfs2-0
  libgnomevfs2-common libgnutls26 libgomp1 libgpg-error0 libgpgme11
  libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-port0 libgpm2 libgpod-common libgpod4
  libgssapi-krb5-2 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libgstreamer0.10-0
  libgtk2-perl libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libgudev-1.0-0
  libgutenprint2 libgweather-common libhpmud0 libice6 libidl0 libidn11
  libiec61883-0 libieee1284-3 libjasper1 libjson-glib-1.0-0 libk5crypto3
  libkeyutils1 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 liblaunchpad-integration1 liblcms1
  libldap-2.4-2 liblocale-gettext-perl liblockfile1 libltdl7 liblua5.1-0
  liblzo2-2 libmetacity-private0 libmng1 libncurses5 libncursesw5
  libneon27-gnutls libnewt0.52 libnih-dbus1 libnih1 libogg0 liborbit2
  liborc-0.4-0 libpam-modules libpam0g libpango-perl libpango1.0-0
  libpangomm-1.4-1 libparted0debian1 libpcap0.8 libpci3 libpciaccess0
libpcre3
  libpcsclite1 libpixman-1-0 libplymouth2 libpng12-0 libpolkit-agent-1-0
  libpolkit-backend-1-0 libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libpopt0 libportaudio2
  libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0 libpurple0 libqt4-dbus libqt4-network
  libqt4-opengl libqt4-script libqt4-sql libqt4-svg libqt4-xml
  libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtcore4 libqtgui4 libraw1394-11 librdf0 libreadline6
  librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libsamplerate0 libsane libsasl2-2
  libsasl2-modules libsdl1.2debian libselinux1 libsensors4 libshout3
  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a libslang2 libsm6 libsmbclient libsndfile1 libsnmp15
  libsoup-gnome2.4-1 libsoup2.4-1 libspectre1 libspeex1 libspeexdsp1
  libsqlite3-0 libss2 libssh-4 libstartup-notification0 libstdc++6
  libsub-name-perl libtag1-vanilla libtag1c2a libtalloc2 libtasn1-3 libtdb1
  libtelepathy-glib0 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libthai0
  libtheora0 libtiff4 libtotem-plparser17 libudev0 libusb-0.1-4 libusb-1.0-0
  libuuid-perl libuuid1 libv4l-0 libvisual-0.4-0 libvisual-0.4-plugins
  libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libvorbisfile3 libwavpack1 libwbclient0
  libwmf0.2-7 libwmf0.2-7-gtk libwnck22 libwrap0 libx11-6 libx11-data
libxau6
  libxaw7 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shape0 libxcb-shm0 libxcb1 libxcomposite1
  libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6
  libxinerama1 libxkbfile1 libxml2 libxmu6 libxmuu1 libxp6 libxpm4
libxrandr2
  libxrender1 libxslt1.1 libxt6 libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86vm1 light-themes
  logrotate lsb-release man-db metacity metacity-common modemmanager
  module-init-tools mount mountall mousetweaks nano nautilus nautilus-data
  nautilus-sendto nautilus-sendto-empathy nautilus-share ncurses-bin
  network-manager network-manager-gnome network-manager-pptp
  network-manager-pptp-gnome notify-osd ntfs-3g ntpdate nvidia-common
  obex-data-server obexd-client onboard openprinting-ppds openssh-client
  openssl parted passwd pciutils pcmciautils perl perl-base perl-modules
  pkg-config plymouth plymouth-label policykit-1 policykit-1-gnome
  poppler-utils ppp procps protobuf-compiler psmisc pulseaudio
  pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
pulseaudio-module-gconf
  pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils python python-appindicator
  python-apport python-apt python-aptdaemon python-brlapi python-cairo
  python-configglue python-crypto python-cups python-cupshelpers python-dbus
  python-debian python-egenix-mxdatetime python-egenix-mxtools python-gconf
  python-gdbm python-glade2 python-gnomekeyring python-gnupginterface
  python-gobject python-gst0.10 python-gtk2 python-httplib2 python-ibus
  python-imaging python-launchpadlib python-lazr.restfulclient
python-lazr.uri
  python-libxml2 python-louis python-mako python-minimal python-notify
  python-oauth python-openssl python-packagekit python-pam python-pexpect
  python-problem-report python-protobuf python-pycurl python-pyinotify
  python-serial python-simplejson python-smbc python-software-properties
  python-speechd python-twisted-bin python-twisted-core python-twisted-names
  python-twisted-web python-ubuntuone-client
python-ubuntuone-storageprotocol
  python-uno python-virtkey python-wadllib python-xapian python-xdg
  python-xkit python-zope.interface rsync rsyslog samba-common
  samba-common-bin seahorse simple-scan smbclient software-center
  software-properties-gtk speech-dispatcher sudo syslinux
  system-config-printer-common system-config-printer-udev sysvinit-utils
  tcpdump telepathy-gabble telepathy-haze telepathy-idle
  telepathy-mission-control-5 telepathy-salut toshset totem-common
  transmission-common transmission-gtk ttf-thai-tlwg tzdata ubuntu-desktop
  ubuntu-docs ubuntu-minimal ubuntu-system-service ubuntu-wallpapers
  ubuntuone-client ubuntuone-client-gnome udev udisks ufw uno-libs3
  update-manager update-manager-core update-notifier update-notifier-common
  upower upstart ure ureadahead usb-creator-common usb-creator-gtk usbmuxd
  usbutils util-linux uuid-runtime vbetool vim-common vim-tiny vino wget
  whiptail whois wireless-tools wpasupplicant x11-utils xdg-user-dirs-gtk
  xkb-data xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev
  xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
  xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-all
  xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
  xserver-xorg-video-geode xserver-xorg-video-intel
xserver-xorg-video-mach64
  xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
  xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
  xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-s3
  xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion
  xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
  xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-vesa
xserver-xorg-video-vmware
  xterm xz-utils yelp zenity zlib1g
The following packages will be upgraded:
  acpi-support acpid adduser adium-theme-ubuntu adobe-flash-properties-gtk
  adobe-flash-properties-kde adobe-flashplugin alsa-base anacron
  app-install-data app-install-data-partner apport-symptoms aspell-en at
  avahi-autoipd avahi-utils base-passwd bogofilter bogofilter-bdb
  bogofilter-common branding-ubuntu bsdutils busybox-initramfs
busybox-static
  command-not-found-data cpio cups-common dash dbus debconf debconf-i18n
  diffutils dmidecode dmsetup dmz-cursor-theme dosfstools ed eject
  example-content file findutils firefox firefox-3.5 firefox-3.5-branding
  firefox-3.5-gnome-support firefox-branding firefox-gnome-support
  firefox-locale-en fontconfig foomatic-filters ftp genisoimage
geoip-database
  gettext-base ghostscript-cups gksu gnome-accessibility-themes gnupg
  gnupg-curl gpgv grep groff-base gsfonts gzip hdparm hicolor-icon-theme
  hostname human-theme humanity-icon-theme hunspell-en-us im-switch
  initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-bin inputattach insserv install-info
  iputils-arping iputils-tracepath irqbalance iso-codes kerneloops-daemon
  klibc-utils language-pack-en language-pack-en-base language-pack-gnome-en
  language-pack-gnome-en-base less libart-2.0-2 libatk1.0-data
  libavahi-common-data libavcodec-extra-52 libavformat52 libavutil-extra-49
  libbrlapi0.5 libcap-ng0 libck-connector0 libdecoration0 libdevmapper1.02.1
  libdjvulibre-text libfontenc1 libfs6 libgdata-common libgeoip1
  libglib2.0-data libgnome-menu2 libgtop2-7 libgtop2-common libhyphen0
  libical0 libijs-0.35 libiw30 libjs-jquery libklibc libkpathsea5
  liblircclient0 liblouis-data libmagic1 libmeanwhile1 libnspr4-0d
libnss-mdns
  libnss3-1d libpam-ck-connector libpam-gnome-keyring libpam-runtime
  libpaper-utils libpaper1 libparse-debianchangelog-perl libplist1
  libpostproc51 libpq5 libpth20 libpurple-bin libsgutils2-2 libslp1
  libsnmp-base libspeechd2 libswscale0 libsysfs2 libthai-data
libtimedate-perl
  libupower-glib1 libusbmuxd1 libwnck-common libx86-1 libxfont1
libxklavier16
  libxres1 libxvmc1 libxxf86dga1 libzephyr4 linux-firmware
  linux-headers-2.6.32-45 linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic
  linux-image-2.6.32-45-generic linux-libc-dev linux-sound-base locales
  lockfile-progs login lsb-base lshw ltrace make makedev manpages
manpages-dev
  mawk media-player-info memtest86+ mime-support mlocate
  mobile-broadband-provider-info mscompress mtools mtr-tiny ncurses-base
  net-tools netbase netcat-openbsd notify-osd-icons
openoffice.org-hyphenation
  opera os-prober patch plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo
plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text
  pm-utils policykit-desktop-privileges popularity-contest pppconfig
pppoeconf
  pptp-linux python-pkg-resources radeontool readline-common rtkit
sane-utils
  sed sensible-utils sgml-base shared-mime-info ssh-askpass-gnome ssl-cert
  strace system-config-printer-gnome sysv-rc tar tasksel tasksel-data tcpd
  time ttf-dejavu-core ttf-freefont ttf-indic-fonts-core ttf-punjabi-fonts
  ttf-wqy-microhei ubuntu-artwork ubuntu-keyring ubuntu-mono ubuntu-sounds
  ubuntu-standard ucf unattended-upgrades unzip update-inetd wamerican wodim
  x11-apps x11-common x11-session-utils x11-xfs-utils x11-xkb-utils
  x11-xserver-utils xauth xbitmaps xcursor-themes xdg-user-dirs xdg-utils
  xfonts-base xfonts-encodings xfonts-scalable xfonts-utils xinit xinput
  xorg-docs-core xserver-common xserver-xorg-input-all zip
248 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 616 not upgraded.
Need to get 85.9MB/188MB of archives.
After this operation, 68.1MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

What follows is the output after opting to continue:

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  libavutil-extra-49 libavcodec-extra-52
Install these packages without verification [y/N]?

Since I have no idea what these packages are about, I opted to not install
them.

Hope this helps.

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 12:24 AM, sampo555
<1100992 at bugs.launchpad.net>wrote:

> That's interesting.  There seems to be no problems with current
> packages. Do you have any third party repositories enabled in your
> system? There might be a package from a PPA missing some of its
> dependencies and Update Manager refuses to update the package causing
> the entire upgrade to fail.
>
> Could you also paste the output from command 'sudo apt-get upgrade' to
> this bug? Hopefully that gives us some information about the package
> causing the issues...
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1100992
>
> Title:
>   Unable to run update manager
>
> Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
>   Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>   When I try to run update manager, I get the following message:
>
>   Could not calculate the upgrade
>
>   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.'
>
>   Please note that I'm running ubuntu 10.04 and simply checking for
>   udpdates, not trying to upgrade to more recent release.   When I try
>   to determine the package version via  'apt-cache policy pkgname', I
>   get:
>
>   Unable to locate package pkgname
>   ---
>   Architecture: i386
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
>   DpkgHistoryLog.txt:
>
>   DpkgTerminalLog.txt: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/var/log/apt/term.log'
>   GConfNonDefault:
>    /apps/update-manager/check_new_release_ignore=
>    /apps/update-manager/first_run=false
>    /apps/update-manager/show_versions=false
>    /apps/update-manager/window_size=(600,600)
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
>   Package: update-manager 1:0.134.12.1
>   PackageArchitecture: all
>   ProcEnviron:
>    LANG=en_US.utf8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-45.101-generic 2.6.32.60+drm33.26
>   Tags: lucid
>   Uname: Linux 2.6.32-45-generic i686
>   UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1100992/+subscriptions
>

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Title:
  Unable to run update manager

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

Bug description:
  When I try to run update manager, I get the following message:

  Could not calculate the upgrade

  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.'

  Please note that I'm running ubuntu 10.04 and simply checking for
  udpdates, not trying to upgrade to more recent release.   When I try
  to determine the package version via  'apt-cache policy pkgname', I
  get:

  Unable to locate package pkgname
  --- 
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  DpkgHistoryLog.txt:
   
  DpkgTerminalLog.txt: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/apt/term.log'
  GConfNonDefault:
   /apps/update-manager/check_new_release_ignore=
   /apps/update-manager/first_run=false
   /apps/update-manager/show_versions=false
   /apps/update-manager/window_size=(600,600)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
  Package: update-manager 1:0.134.12.1
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-45.101-generic 2.6.32.60+drm33.26
  Tags: lucid
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-45-generic i686
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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