[Bug 1069356] Re: Upgrade doesn't complete because it says it cant install ubuntu-desktop

[melchiaros]

In VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.txt:

2012-10-21 20:08:24,673 DEBUG guessing 'ubuntu-desktop' as missing meta-pkg
2012-10-21 20:08:25,858 ERROR failed to mark 'ubuntu-desktop' for install (E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.)
2012-10-21 20:08:57,872 DEBUG blacklist expr 'unity$' matches 'unity'
2012-10-21 20:08:57,873 DEBUG The package 'unity' is marked for removal but it's in the removal blacklist
2012-10-21 20:09:12,205 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'The package 'unity' is marked for removal but it is in the removal blacklist.'
2012-10-21 20:09:12,206 DEBUG abort called

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Title:
  Upgrade doesn't complete because it says it cant  install  ubuntu-
  desktop

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

Bug description:
  The upgrade doesn't complete because it says it can't install ubuntu-desktop.
  Upgrade from  12.04 to  12.10.

  From VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.txt:

  ERROR:root:failed to mark 'ubuntu-desktop' for install (E:Unable to
  correct problems, you have held broken packages.)

  There's lot of other dependency issues in that error log.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.156.14.11
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun Oct 21 21:30:34 2012
  GsettingsChanges:
   com.ubuntu.update-manager first-run false
   com.ubuntu.update-manager launch-time 1350817788
   com.ubuntu.update-manager show-details true
   com.ubuntu.update-manager window-height 579
   com.ubuntu.update-manager window-width 1024
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-10-21 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstate.tar.gz: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz'
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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