[Bug 1022102] Re: Can not update the system. Get an error "Unable to mark upgrades."

[Wesley Schwengle]

I still have this issue on several boxes:

$ lsb_release -a ; apt-cache policy aptitude ; aptitude -s safe-upgrade ; aptitude -s -y full-upgrade
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release:        12.04
Codename:       precise

aptitude:
  Installed: 0.6.6-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.6.6-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.6.6-1ubuntu1 0
        990 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Resolving dependencies...                
Unable to resolve dependencies for the upgrade: no solution found.
Unable to safely resolve dependencies, try running with --full-resolver.

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libcrystalhd3{a} 
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gir1.2-gudev-1.0 initscripts libgudev-1.0-0 libgudev-1.0-0:i386 libldap-2.4-2 libldap-2.4-2:i386 libnautilus-extension1a libudev0 libudev0:i386 libvlc5 libvlccore5 
  nautilus-data resolvconf sysv-rc sysvinit-utils udev vlc vlc-data vlc-nox vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse 
21 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 14.9 MB of archives. After unpacking 2,729 kB will be used.
Would download/install/remove packages.

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Title:
  Can not update the system. Get an error "Unable to mark upgrades."

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When updating in the UI (Muon) I get an error dialog saying

  Unable to Mark Upgrades
  Not all packages could be marked for upgrade.
  ...

  Updating on the command line fails, too:

  sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
  Resolving dependencies...                
  Unable to resolve dependencies for the upgrade: no solution found.
  Unable to safely resolve dependencies, try running with --full-resolver.

  
  $ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade --full-resolver
  The following packages will be upgraded: 
    linux-generic linux-headers-generic{b} linux-image-generic{b} 
  3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 5,252 B/6,960 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   linux-headers-generic : Depends: linux-headers-3.2.0-27-generic which is a virtual package.
   linux-image-generic : Depends: linux-image-3.2.0-27-generic which is a virtual package.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: muon-updater 1.3.1-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic 3.2.19
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Jul  7 09:38:47 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/muon-updater
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101008)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: muon
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-07 (61 days ago)

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