[Bug 1037312] [NEW] libnspr4 halts updates : E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. It looks like the scanning for updates never completes, like a timeout of the servers (main and university of twente also)

[Michel Speelman]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1036794 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1036794

Private bug reported:

Description:	Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release:	12.04

libnspr4:
  Installed: 4.8.9-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 4.8.9-1ubuntu2.1
  Version table:
     4.8.9-1ubuntu2.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main i386 Packages
 *** 4.8.9-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

And also on the University of Twente servers (was the original setting
when it happened)

libnspr4:
  Installed: 4.8.9-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 4.8.9-1ubuntu2.1
  Version table:
     4.8.9-1ubuntu2.1 0
        500 http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main i386 Packages
 *** 4.8.9-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The problem happened during normal scheduled search for updates
What happened was the that i got the "do not enter" traffic sign in the bar on top of the screen.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libnspr4 4.8.9-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 15 23:29:27 2012
SourcePackage: nspr
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-30 (106 days ago)

** Affects: nspr (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 precise running-unity

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Title:
  libnspr4 halts updates : E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve
  generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.  It looks like
  the scanning for updates never completes, like a timeout of the
  servers (main and university of twente also)

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