[Bug 1537527] [NEW] Can't upgrade the system because of held back packages

[Larian1975]

Public bug reported:

Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release:	14.04

I expected to be able to upgrade my system to the 15.04 release.

apt-get upgrade reports that there are several packages that have been held back
gcc-4.9-base 
gcc-4.9-base:i386 
lib32gcc1 
libgcc1 
libgcc1:i386
linux-headers-generic 
linux-image-generic-lts-utopic

Can't even do a partial upgrade. Attempting to do so is what launched
this bug report with a complaint of not being able to install ubuntu-
desktop.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt20
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-57-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Jan 24 11:59:48 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-10 (592 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2016-01-20 (4 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
 
mtime.conffile..etc.update.manager.release.upgrades: 2016-01-17T11:00:19.103252

** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade third-party-packages trusty

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Title:
  Can't upgrade the system because of held back packages

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  I expected to be able to upgrade my system to the 15.04 release.

  apt-get upgrade reports that there are several packages that have been held back
  gcc-4.9-base 
  gcc-4.9-base:i386 
  lib32gcc1 
  libgcc1 
  libgcc1:i386
  linux-headers-generic 
  linux-image-generic-lts-utopic

  Can't even do a partial upgrade. Attempting to do so is what launched
  this bug report with a complaint of not being able to install ubuntu-
  desktop.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt20
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-57-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sun Jan 24 11:59:48 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-10 (592 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2016-01-20 (4 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
   
  mtime.conffile..etc.update.manager.release.upgrades: 2016-01-17T11:00:19.103252

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