Lucid -> Precise trouble with do-release-upgrade

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Sun Feb 12 15:17:48 UTC 2012


Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 09:18:45AM +0100, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > When I try to upgrade (a copy of) my main system from Lucid to
> > Precise
> > 
> > with the command "do-release-upgrade -d", I get the following 
message:
> > | Could not calculate the upgrade
> > | 
> > | An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
> > | 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
> > | 
> > | If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the
> > | command 'ubuntu-bug update-manager' in a terminal.
> > 
> > Well, I do have packages installed which were not provided by
> > Ubuntu and I tried to upgrade to a pre-release version. Does it
> > really mean I should not report the problem?
> 
> You should report it.  (Hmm, yes, the message is misleading.)

Done (#930993).


Nils




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