[lucid] update-notifier 99 breaks ubuntu-desktop

[NoOp]

On 03/19/2010 11:46 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 03/19/2010 11:31 PM, NoOp wrote:
>> Anyone else having issues with the update-notifier upgrades this evening?
>> 
>> update-notifier-common removes ubuntu-desktop and update-notifier -
>> result is a desktop background with no panels. Mouse works,
>> Alt-CTRL-F1-6 works, but nothing else (including booting into failsafe
>> mode & attempting to reinstall ubuntu-desktop results in:
>> 
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>  ubuntu-desktop: Depends: update-notifier but it is not going to be
>> installed
>>  E: Broken packages
>> 
>> Tried to file a bug report on launchpad, but launchpad is so screwed up
>> following their "upgrade" that I only get:
>> ====
>> Unexpected form data
>> 
>> Launchpad doesn't understand the form data submitted in this request.
>> ====
>> 
>> The update is from update-notifier 98 to 99 & 99 seems to be the culprit.
>> 
>> On another test system I've held back all of the update-notifier
>> upgrades & that seems to
>> 
>> 
> 
> May have found the appropriate bug report:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cdbs/+bug/542343
> [gnome-panel will not autostart on lucid]
> So heads-up!!

Don't update for a day or two & hopefully all will get sorted out.