[Bug 1618120] Re: I tried to upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04. Received error message (none of the listed conditions applies) as follows: An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade. This can be caused by: * Upgrading to a pre-release ver...

[Ernst Niebur]

Thank you for coming back to me.

Honestly, I have no idea when and where I installed gnuplot-tex and
gnuplot-data from. This was probably years ago and I have not even used
either of them for some time.

I went around the problem and installed 16.04 from scratch.

Still, thanks again.

--Ernst

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Where did you install gnuplot-tex and gnuplot-data from?  They seem to
> be the cause of the failure to calculate the upgrade.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
>        Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
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> Title:
>   I tried to upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04. Received error message (none
>   of the listed conditions applies) as follows: An unresolvable problem
>   occurred while calculating the upgrade.   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 using the command 'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a
>   terminal.
>
> Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
>   Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>   Error message again:
>
>
>   An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.
>
>    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 using the command
>   'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a terminal.
>
>
>   Other info:
>
>   lsb_release -rd
>   Description:  Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
>   Release:      14.04
>
>   apt-cache policy pkgname
>   N: Unable to locate package pkgname
>
>   What I expected: an upgrade (I upgraded another machine recently from
>   14.04 to 16.04 and it worked flawlessly, smoothest upgrade I ever
>   experienced)
>
>   What happened: It stopped after this error message
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
>   Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.8
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-95.142-generic 3.13.11-ckt39
>   Uname: Linux 3.13.0-95-generic i686
>   ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.21
>   Architecture: i386
>   CrashDB: ubuntu
>   CurrentDesktop: XFCE
>   Date: Mon Aug 29 11:48:54 2016
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-08-09 (1847 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386
> (20110427.1)
>   PackageArchitecture: all
>   SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
>   UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2016-08-29 (0 days ago)
>   VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
>
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Ernst Niebur, PhD                               Krieger Mind/Brain Institute
Professor of Neuroscience                   Johns Hopkins University
niebur at jhu.edu                                   http://cnslab.mb.jhu.edu
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Title:
  I tried to upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04. Received error message (none
  of the listed conditions applies) as follows: An unresolvable problem
  occurred while calculating the upgrade.   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 using the command 'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a
  terminal.

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Error message again:

  
  An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

   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 using the command
  'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a terminal.


  Other info:

  lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  apt-cache policy pkgname
  N: Unable to locate package pkgname

  What I expected: an upgrade (I upgraded another machine recently from
  14.04 to 16.04 and it worked flawlessly, smoothest upgrade I ever
  experienced)

  What happened: It stopped after this error message

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-95.142-generic 3.13.11-ckt39
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-95-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.21
  Architecture: i386
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Mon Aug 29 11:48:54 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-08-09 (1847 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2016-08-29 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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