[Bug 1331553] [NEW] manager says "could not calculate upgrade" on startup

[James E Morris]

Public bug reported:

When I start the update manager I _immediately_ get the following:

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.'

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.134.12.1
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-031600rc1-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CurrentDmesg: [   27.795158] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
Date: Wed Jun 18 12:29:41 2014
DpkgTerminalLog.txt: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/apt/term.log'
GConfNonDefault:
 /apps/update-manager/check_new_release_ignore=
 /apps/update-manager/first_run=false
 /apps/update-manager/show_versions=false
 /apps/update-manager/window_size=(600,600)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: update-manager

** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid

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Title:
  manager says "could not calculate upgrade" on startup

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

Bug description:
  When I start the update manager I _immediately_ get the following:

  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.'

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.134.12.1
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-031600rc1-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDmesg: [   27.795158] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
  Date: Wed Jun 18 12:29:41 2014
  DpkgTerminalLog.txt: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/apt/term.log'
  GConfNonDefault:
   /apps/update-manager/check_new_release_ignore=
   /apps/update-manager/first_run=false
   /apps/update-manager/show_versions=false
   /apps/update-manager/window_size=(600,600)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.2)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/usr/bin/tcsh
  SourcePackage: update-manager

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