[Bug 1749831] Re: Update failed due to problem with ubuntu-desktop

[Tommy Trussell]

started using a terminal and it looks like it's going to finish

twt at Dimension1:~$ sudo apt update
[sudo] password for twt: 
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
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Hit:3 http://screenshots.getdeb.net xenial-getdeb InRelease                    
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [67.4 kB]
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                     
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main DEP-11 64x64 Icons [66.9 kB]
Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [51.3 kB]
Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe DEP-11 64x64 Icons [80.2 kB]
Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]    
Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB] 
Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Get:12 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main Sources [296 kB]
Get:13 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [724 kB]
Get:14 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages [674 kB]
Get:15 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [317 kB]
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Get:17 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages [588 kB]
Get:18 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [545 kB]
Get:19 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [190 kB]
Get:20 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe DEP-11 64x64 Icons [272 kB]
Get:21 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [5,888 B]
Get:22 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [67.4 kB]
Get:23 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main DEP-11 64x64 Icons [66.9 kB]
Get:24 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [51.3 kB]
Get:25 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe DEP-11 64x64 Icons [80.2 kB]
Fetched 4,768 kB in 7s (651 kB/s)                                              
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
37 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
twt at Dimension1:~$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  compiz compiz-core compiz-gnome compiz-plugins-default libcompizconfig0
  libdecoration0
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apt apt-transport-https apt-utils bsdutils gnome-disk-utility libapt-inst2.0
  libapt-pkg5.0 libblkid1 libegl1-mesa libfdisk1 libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dev
  libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libgles2-mesa libmount1
  libsmartcols1 libunity-control-center1 libuuid1 libwayland-egl1-mesa
  libxatracker2 linux-firmware mesa-common-dev mesa-vdpau-drivers mount
  resolvconf unity-control-center unity-control-center-faces util-linux
  uuid-runtime
31 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 56.6 MB/59.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 21.5 kB disk space will be freed.
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Title:
  Update failed due to problem with ubuntu-desktop

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

Bug description:
  I launched software-updater as I usually do, and I was informed I
  needed to perform a "partial upgrade," and I agreed to the dist
  upgrade.

  The indicator showed various packages being downloaded, but next thing
  I knew a dialog appeared saying:

  "Can't install 'ubuntu-desktop' It was impossible to install a
  required package. Please report this as a bug using 'ubuntu-bug
  ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a terminal."

  So I did.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:16.04.23
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-112.135-generic 4.4.98
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-112-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Feb 15 16:33:08 2018
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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