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Cant Update to ubuntu 10.10

Asked by E squared

I had a while that I din't use my ubuntu computer but I recently started using it again. The first thing I did was to upgrade my ubuntu. I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 and that is the version I have now. Well the problem is that now there is a new version of Ubuntu, 10.10. When I go to update manager and click upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 and a windows pops up saying Upgrading to ubuntu 10.10 with a list of things to be checked.Anyway another window pops up saying that third party sources are disabled. Next it says its setting the new software channels. Then a window pops us saying can not calculate the upgrade, in the window it says many things. It starts by saying a unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade. After i click close on that window it now says reseting system back to original state. That is where my problem is, someone please help me!!!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

uname -a; lsb_release -a; echo; dpkg -l | grep desktop

Thanks

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E squared (ep-hier) said : 		#2

Where can i find all of that?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Copy all of the command, press CTRL+ALT+T
paste the command in to the terminal and press ENTER.
Copy all the output and paste it here as an update

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#4

This can be a duplicate of bug 721306 and bug 658458 (and a dozen 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.

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E squared (ep-hier) said : 		#5

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.