Could not calculate the upgrade -- Error Message (While doing Manual Update)

[Jatin Davey]

Steve wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:46:39 -0000, Jatin Davey <daveyjatin at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>   
>> Jatin Davey wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> While doing the manual update of the ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop using
>>> the GUI i get this error message.
>>> *"Could not calculate the upgrade".*
>>>
>>> It basically reads something from the cache and it goes on for about
>>> 25 mins then i get this error message.
>>>
>>> Complete Message is as below:
>>>
>>> *Could not calculate the upgrade
>>>
>>> An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
>>> E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken 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
>>>
>>> This is most likely a transient problem, please try again later.*
>>>
>>>
>>> Please help me on resolving this issue.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Jatin
>>>
>>>       
>> I would like to add one more information that tried with the terminal.
>> Basicallt i was trying to update the entire ubuntu box for any new
>> packages using the GUI, Since it failed as described in the above mail i
>> tried the apt-get command. I tried the following:
>>
>> firstly i gave the command : sudo apt-get update
>> then i gave the command : sudo apt-get upgrade
>>
>> The result of doing this was that i got 2 packages upgraded in my system.
>>
>> So what i infer is that the GUI is not working properly but the system
>> gets updated using the terminal. Please let me know if i am missing
>> something here.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jatin
>>
>>     
> Have you tried the GUI since then?
> As it says "This is most likely a transient problem, please try again  
> later."
>
>   
I tried a couple of times yesterday night (IST) , Will try again today 
and let you what happened.
If it is not working then is it related to GUI as it works fine when i 
use terminal and use the apt-get command.

Thanks
Jatin