[Bug 934371] Re: Unresolvable problem message does not help users and results in less useful bug reports

[Cylgalad]

Thanks but main.log is not very informative.
At first I thought it was lack of lubuntu-desktop (and the crap it installs like OBSOLETE xscreensaver) that was the problem, but I did apt-get install lubuntu-desktop and after that the upgrade still failed.

I must say that ubuntu's upgrade process is a real PIA, but generally the problems happen *after* the upgrade not *before* !
I may want to go back to a distro that is always up-to-date.

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Title:
  Unresolvable problem message does not help users and results in less
  useful bug reports

Status in “ubuntu-release-upgrader” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  In UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py the following code exists:

      except SystemError, e:
          msg = ("<big><b>%s</b></big>\n\n%s\n'%s'" %
                 (_("Could not calculate the upgrade"),
                  _("An unresolvable problem occurred while "
                    "calculating the upgrade.\n\n"
                    "Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' "
                    "package and include the following error message:"),
                  e)
                 )

  The upgrade may not be calculated for a couple of reasons.  As an
  example we have:

  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

  update-manager knows, or should know, if you are upgrading to a pre-
  release or running one and should notify the user to try again as this
  may be due to archive inconsistencies rather than having them file a
  bug right away.

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