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Upgrade to 10.10 refused

Asked by Sten Andersson

I use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - Lucid Lynx - released april 2010 supported until april 2013.

When trying to upgrade to 10.10 according to information in the update manager the upgrade starts but after a few steps it is interrupted. A number of alternate reasons are proposed, i.e. upgrading to a pre-release.

Is there any known problems i shuld know about or shall I reconfigure some way?

Rather new to Ubuntu, middle-skilled user, "expert" during the DOS-years.

Best regards
Sten Andersson

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Run:

gksudo gedit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades

Change:
Prompt=lts
to:
Prompt=normal

Save the new file, then run:

sudo apt-get install update-manager-core; sudo do-release-upgrade

Should be fine and upgrade to Maverick just dandy

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

This can be a duplicate of bug 614993 (and dozens of similar ones)

If the package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is installed, in several cases the 10.04 to 10.10 upgrade fails with the error message

"Could not determine the upgrade
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held 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"

Several persons have reported that after removal of that package the upgrade was successful.

Try this workaround: Open a terminal and enter the command:

sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

and try the upgrade again.

If this does not help please provide an description of the actions that you have executed and the exact messages you see on screen.

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Sten Andersson (stenolof-andersson) said : 		#3

Many thnks, I have now upgraded to 10.10