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update-manager to hoary failed

Asked by breathwork

Using the gui update manager, did a dist-upgrade that failed, now when I run it the gui reports:

Could not calculate the upgrade

A unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

 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

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.

When I run apt-get from the command line I get:

 sudo apt-get build-dep
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Must specify at least one package to check builddeps for
mortimer@lamo:~$ sudo apt-get -f upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  gnash gnash-common gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
  hwdb-client-common liba52-0.7.4 libboost-date-time1.34.1
  libboost-thread1.34.1 libdvdread3 libebml0 libgtkhtml3.8-15 libntfs-gnomevfs
  libsvg1 libvcdinfo0 libvlc0 libwxbase2.6-0 libwxgtk2.6-0 mcpp
  mozilla-plugin-gnash python-xml serpentine sleuthkit startupmanager testdisk
  vlc vlc-nox wine xserver-xorg-input-elographics
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 28 not upgraded.

Can anybody help?

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douglas_smith (hamsterzombie-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

So you're trying to upgrade from Warty Warthog (4.10) to Hoary Hedgehog (5.04)?
Did you mean to say Hardy Heron (8.04)?

Can you provide clarification on what you wish to accomplish?

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breathwork (breathwork) said : 		#2

I have just resolved the problem. I downloaded 8.04 DVD and re-installed over the top of the old system. Its now working fine.

It was an attempt to upgrade from 7 -> 8 using the update manager, and something went seriously voodoo.

Thanks anyway

Geofrey