[Bug 561608] Re: I tried to help by doing a system upgrade. During that process not all package were downloaded correctly. This caused the upgrade to be aborted. A later retry tells me that I have now broken packages and will not proceed.

[Brian Murray]

** Package changed: update-notifier (Ubuntu) => update-manager (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  I tried to help by doing a system upgrade.  During that process not
  all package were downloaded correctly.  This caused the upgrade to be
  aborted.  A later retry tells me that I have now broken packages and
  will not proceed.

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

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-notifier

  Doing a release upgrade via a terminal interface gives the following
  messages:

  
  piet at laptop-1:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade -d
  Checking for a new ubuntu release
  Done Upgrade tool signature
  Done Upgrade tool
  Done downloading            
  extracting 'lucid.tar.gz'
  authenticate 'lucid.tar.gz' against 'lucid.tar.gz.gpg' 
  tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
  tar: /etc/apt/preferences: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
  tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

  Reading cache

  Checking package manager
  Reading package lists: Donem karmic/partner Packages: 93  ages: 93   
  Reading state information: Done
  Reading state information: Done
  Reading state information: Done
  Done downloading            
  Reading package lists: Done
  Reading state information: Done
  Reading state information: Done
  Reading state information: Done

  Updating repository information
  WARNING: Failed to read mirror file
  Done downloading            

  Checking package manager
  Reading package lists: Donem lucid/partner Packages: 93  ages: 93   
  Reading state information: Done
  Reading state information: Done
  Reading state information: Done

  Calculating the changes

  Calculating the changes

  Could not calculate the upgrade

  An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade: 
  E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken 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 

  If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the 
  'update-manager' package and include the files in 
  /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report. 

  
  Restoring original system state

  Aborting
  Reading package lists: Donem karmic/partner Packages: 93  ages: 93   
  Reading state information: Done
  Reading state information: Done
  Reading state information: Done
  piet at laptop-1:~$

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Apr 12 12:55:09 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-notifier
  Package: update-notifier 0.90
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
  SourcePackage: update-notifier
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686

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