[Bug 2081864] Re: Upgrade from mantic to noble aborted. Broken packages

[Julian Andres Klode]

Notably this was actually the main culprit, and I verified the fix
allows upgrading

** Also affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Noble)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Noble)
       Status: New => Triaged

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Title:
  Upgrade from mantic to noble aborted. Broken packages

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Noble:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Hello ubuntu devs,

  Trying to upgrade from mantic to noble but my system has broken
  packages. About 93 now. Before they were almost 200

  I tried removing some broken packages and made some mistakes on the way I guess.
  The point is that I also have some fundamental packages in broken state. For instance, python3 and I cannot remove it since it depends on grub-common.

  The error from /var/log/dist-upgrade is:

  # grep 'E:' main.log
  2024-09-24 18:26:37,663 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.'

  I tried many things, I checked with dpkg --get-selections if I had hold packages and I did not have.
  My last try was to mark as "hold" grub packages:

  # apt-mark showhold
  grub-efi-amd64-bin
  grub-efi-amd64-signed

  Could you please give a hand on this one?

  Thank you very much in advance!

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:23.10.14
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-44.44-generic 6.5.13
  Uname: Linux 6.5.0-44-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CrashReports:
   640:0:115:325160:2024-09-23 19:38:03.393134716 +0200:2024-09-23 19:37:57.853134596 +0200:/var/crash/_usr_sbin_thermald.0.crash
   640:1000:115:933873:2024-09-22 13:47:22.006442070 +0200:2024-09-22 13:47:23.006442070 +0200:/var/crash/_usr_bin_light-locker.1000.crash
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Tue Sep 24 18:33:04 2024
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-16 (3114 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to mantic on 2024-09-24 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeAptHistorylog:
   Start-Date: 2024-09-24  18:25:07
   Requested-By: beatpanic (1000)
   End-Date: 2024-09-24  18:25:07
  VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog:
   Log started: 2024-09-24  18:25:07
   Log ended: 2024-09-24  18:25:07

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