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pierrot66 (jeantet-yvette) wrote : re: [Bug 278285] Re: "unresolvable" problem when upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04

 Merci de votre aide ,j'ai réinstallé ubuntu et c'est reparti
Salutations

> Message du 05/10/08 02:31
> De : "Chris Coulson"
> A : <email address hidden>
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> Objet : [Bug 278285] Re: "unresolvable" problem when upgrading from 7.10 to8.04
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> Do you have a package called 'xserver-xorg-video' installed on your
> machine?
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> "unresolvable" problem when upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278285
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> manager in ubuntu.
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> Status in “update-manager” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: update-manager
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> Description: Ubuntu 7.10
> Release: 7.10
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> Hi, I'm trying to update (using System / Administration / Update Manager) from 7.10 to 8.04, and getting this message:
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> A unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.
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> 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
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> 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 bugreport.
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> I'm not doing anything with pre-releases, and I don't think there's anything unusual on this machine that might be getting in the way. I've previously upgraded from 6.10 to 7.04 to 7.10 with pretty much the same stuff.
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> I'm attaching main.log from /var/log/dist-upgrade. It ends with:
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> 2008-10-04 13:37:14,941 DEBUG Marking 'ubuntu-desktop' for upgrade
> 2008-10-04 13:37:15,317 DEBUG The package 'nvidia-glx' is marked for removal but it's in the removal blacklist
> 2008-10-04 13:37:34,442 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'A essential package would have to be removed'
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> I found /usr/share/update-manager/removal_blacklist.cfg and tried commenting out the nvidia-glx entries, but get the same error as above.
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> Please let me know if you need to see more logs.
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> I also found:
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/249329
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> Relating to Intrepid, which made me think of looking for removal_blacklist.cfg and commenting out the nvidia lines.
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> Thanks for your help!
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