could not calculate the upgrade

[Tapas Mishra]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 17:38 +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > On 11 October 2010 11:41, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
>> >> On 11 October 2010 11:11, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> What do I need to do now?
>> >>
>> >> Quoting from your mail:-
>> >>
>> >> "If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the
>> >> 'update-manager' package and include the files in
>> >> /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report."
>>
>> >> Which you can do by typing this command:-
>> >>
>> >> ubuntu-bug update-manager
>> >>
>> Ok just wanted to know if this unreasonable crash of update has not
>> harmed my system in any way.
>
> You must not have updated Lucid, prior to the upgrade, to be holding
> broken packages. The update will ask you if you want to remove broken
> packages.
I did updated prior to upgrade.
>
> I quote:
> "An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
> E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages."
>
> Note: it says "you have held" not "unreasonable crash". Linux will do,
> unlike another OS I know of, whatever you tell it to do. 99.9% of the
> time, the problems lies between the chair and the keyboard. Besides,
> what prevents you from doing a fresh install as many suggest? If you
> know better, why ask when it blows up? Ric
 I have to work also rather than just doing installations and formatting.