[Bug 878141] Re: E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

Walter Garcia-Fontes walter.garcia at upf.edu
Fri Oct 21 07:11:18 UTC 2011


Thanks for your logs. Can you try to check if you have libcupsys2
installed, and if so uninstall it and try to see if the upgrade
proceeds? Just enter

sudo apt-get remove libcupsys2

and this will remove this package if you have it.

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Title:
  E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be
  caused by held packages.

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  When I click on Install Updates in Update Manager, I get this error message:
  """
  Could not calculate the upgrade

  An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

  Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:
  'E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.'
  """
  Note that it fails at this step and does not install anything.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.150.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Oct 19 08:09:12 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  GConfNonDefault:
   /apps/update-manager/check_new_release_ignore=
   /apps/update-manager/first_run=false
   /apps/update-manager/window_size=(600,600)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-10-17 (1 days ago)

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