[Bug 2150319] Re: lintian breaks upgrade from 24.04 to 26.04

Wed May 6 17:28:01 UTC 2026

I can confirm that purging lintian did allow the upgrade to proceed.

From: alex kouw <2150319 at bugs.launchpad.net>
To: <dcr at rossney.net>
Date: Wed, 06 May 2026 13:15:40 -0400
Subject: Re: [Bug 2150319] Re: lintian breaks upgrade from 24.04 to 26.04

sapte at SAPTESTMANAGER:/mnt/c/Users/sapte$ sudo apt install perl-modules 
Reading package lists... Done 
Building dependency tree... Done 
Reading state information... Done 
Note, selecting 'perl-modules-5.38' instead of 'perl-modules' 
perl-modules-5.38 is already the newest version (5.38.2-3.2ubuntu0.2). 
perl-modules-5.38 set to manually installed. 
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 

On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 7:13 PM Alex Kouw < mailto:kouwalex at gmail.com > wrote: 

> Hi Simon (says) 
> 
> I updated perl and perl modules before upgrade. Turned out I was on 
> latest perl. 
> 
> sapte at SAPTESTMANAGER:/mnt/c/Users/sapte$ sudo apt install perl 
> Reading package lists... Done 
> Building dependency tree... Done 
> Reading state information... Done 
> perl is already the newest version (5.38.2-3.2ubuntu0.2). 
> perl set to manually installed. 
> The following package was automatically installed and is no longer 
> required: 
>   libwoff1 
> Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it. 
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded 
> 
> -- done -- sudo apt autoremove = ok 
> 
> sudo do-release-upgrade -d 
> 
> ........... 
> Fetched 42.4 MB in 6s (1994 kB/s) 
> 
> Checking package manager 
> Reading package lists... Done 
> Building dependency tree... Done 
> Reading state information... Done 
> 
> Calculating the changes 
> 
> Calculating the changes 
> 
> Could not calculate the upgrade 
> 
> An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade. 
> 
> If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the 
> command 'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a terminal. If 
> you want to investigate this yourself the log files in 
> '/var/log/dist-upgrade' will contain details about the upgrade. 
> Specifically, look at 'main.log' and 'apt.log'. 
> 
> 
> Restoring original system state 
> 
> Aborting 
> Reading package lists... Done 
> Building dependency tree... Done 
> Reading state information... Done 
> 
> 
> NOPE, DID NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM 
> 
> Thanks for trying to resolve this! 
> 
> Best of luck finding the BUG. 
> 
> Kind regards, 
> Alex 
> Test Manager SAP 
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 6:10 PM Simon Johnsson < mailto:2150319 at bugs.launchpad.net > 
> wrote: 
> 
>> Would someone who still faces this bug mind attempting an upgrade of 
>> perl and perl-modules to their latest versions on Noble? I'm interested 
>> in seeing if the release upgrade still reaches this issue in that case. 
>> 
>> Note: the release upgrader is experiencing a known issue right now where 
>> it is unable to reach http://archive.ubuntu.com  due to recent DDoS 
>> attacks (see https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/update-concerning-ddos-  
>> attack-on-canonical-and-ubuntu/81482 
>> < https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/update-concerning-ddos-attack-on-canonical-and-ubuntu/81482 > 
>> ) 
>> 
>> -- 
>> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a 
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>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2150319  
>> 
>> Title: 
>>   lintian breaks upgrade from 24.04 to 26.04 
>> 
>> Status in libfile-libmagic-perl package in Ubuntu: 
>>   Confirmed 
>> Status in libyaml-libyaml-perl package in Ubuntu: 
>>   Confirmed 
>> Status in lintian package in Ubuntu: 
>>   Confirmed 
>> Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu: 
>>   Triaged 
>> 
>> Bug description: 
>>   Checking package manager 
>>   Reading package lists... Done 
>>   Building dependency tree... Done 
>>   Reading state information... Done 
>> 
>>   Calculating the changes 
>> 
>>   Calculating the changes 
>> 
>>   Could not calculate the upgrade 
>> 
>>   An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade. 
>> 
>>   If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the 
>>   command 'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a terminal. If 
>>   you want to investigate this yourself the log files in 
>>   '/var/log/dist-upgrade' will contain details about the upgrade. 
>>   Specifically, look at 'main.log' and 'apt.log'. 
>> 
>> 
>>   Restoring original system state 
>> 
>>   Aborting 
>>   Reading package lists... Done 
>>   Building dependency tree... Done 
>>   Reading state information... Done 
>> 
>> 
>>   --- 
>> 
>>   From /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log: 
>> 
>>   2026-04-25 10:49:52,862 DEBUG running doUpdate() (showErrors=True) 
>>   2026-04-25 10:49:55,388 DEBUG openCache() 
>>   2026-04-25 10:49:55,746 DEBUG Comparing 6.8.0-107 with 
>>   2026-04-25 10:49:55,746 DEBUG Comparing 6.8.0-110 with 6.8.0-107 
>>   2026-04-25 10:49:55,785 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 81819 
>>   2026-04-25 10:49:55,883 DEBUG Foreign (before rewriting sources): 
>> 1password 1password-cli buildah ffmpeg fig2dev firefox gh gimp gimp-data 
>> gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0 google-chrome-stable gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad 
>> imagemagick imagemagick-6-common imagemagick-6.q16 libavcodec60 
>> libavdevice60 libavfilter9 libavformat60 libavutil58 libcjson1 
>> libgimp2.0t64 libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0 libimage-magick-perl 
>> libimage-magick-q16-perl libmagick++-6.q16-9t64 libmagickcore-6.q16-7-extra 
>> libmagickcore-6.q16-7t64 libmagickwand-6.q16-7t64 libmbedcrypto7t64 
>> libmbedtls14t64 libmbedx509-1t64 libpostproc57 libqt5core5t64 
>> libqt5dbus5t64 libqt5gui5t64 libqt5network5t64 libqt5widgets5t64 
>> libswresample4 libswscale7 libvlc-bin libvlc5 libvlccore9 libzvbi-common 
>> libzvbi0t64 podman podman-docker python3-filelock python3-fonttools 
>> python3-virtualenv qt5-gtk-platformtheme vlc vlc-bin vlc-data vlc-l10n 
>> vlc-plugin-access-extra vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-qt 
>> vlc-plugin-samba vlc-plugin-skins2 vlc-plugin-video-output 
>> vlc-plugin-video-splitter vlc-plugin-visualization 
>>   2026-04-25 10:49:55,883 DEBUG Foreign (after rewriting sources): 
>>   2026-04-25 10:49:55,883 DEBUG running Quirks.PreDistUpgradeCache 
>>   2026-04-25 10:49:56,344 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'W:Skipping acquire 
>> of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository ' 
>> https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome-stable/deb  stable InRelease' doesn't 
>> support architecture 'i386', E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated 
>> breaks, this may be caused by held packages.' 
>>   2026-04-25 10:49:56,348 DEBUG abort called 
>>   2026-04-25 10:49:56,349 DEBUG openCache() 
>>   2026-04-25 10:49:57,552 DEBUG Comparing 6.8.0-107 with 
>>   2026-04-25 10:49:57,552 DEBUG Comparing 6.8.0-110 with 6.8.0-107 
>>   2026-04-25 10:49:57,628 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 103198 
>> 
>>   ProblemType: Bug 
>>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04 
>>   Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:24.04.28 
>>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-107.107-generic 6.8.12 
>>   Uname: Linux 6.8.0-107-generic x86_64 
>>   ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.8 
>>   Architecture: amd64 
>>   CasperMD5CheckResult: pass 
>>   CrashDB: ubuntu 
>>   CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME 
>>   Date: Sat Apr 25 10:51:38 2026 
>>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-06-07 (1418 days ago) 
>>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 
>> (20220419) 
>>   PackageArchitecture: all 
>>   ProcEnviron: 
>>    LANG=en_US.UTF-8 
>>    PATH=(custom, no user) 
>>    SHELL=/bin/zsh 
>>    TERM=xterm-256color 
>>    XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> 
>>   SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader 
>>   UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2026-04-25 (0 days ago) 
>>   VarLogDistupgradeAptHistorylog: 
>>    Start-Date: 2026-04-25  10:49:40 
>>    Requested-By: ari (1000) 
>>    End-Date: 2026-04-25  10:49:40 
>>   VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog: 
>>    Log started: 2026-04-25  10:49:40 
>>    Log ended: 2026-04-25  10:49:40 
>> 
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Title: 
 lintian breaks upgrade from 24.04 to 26.04 

Status in libfile-libmagic-perl package in Ubuntu: 
 Confirmed 
Status in libyaml-libyaml-perl package in Ubuntu: 
 Confirmed 
Status in lintian package in Ubuntu: 
 Confirmed 
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu: 
 Triaged 

Bug description: 
 Checking package manager 
 Reading package lists... Done 
 Building dependency tree... Done 
 Reading state information... Done 

 Calculating the changes 

 Calculating the changes 

 Could not calculate the upgrade 

 An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade. 

 If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the 
 command 'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a terminal. If 
 you want to investigate this yourself the log files in 
 '/var/log/dist-upgrade' will contain details about the upgrade. 
 Specifically, look at 'main.log' and 'apt.log'. 

 Restoring original system state 

 Aborting 
 Reading package lists... Done 
 Building dependency tree... Done 
 Reading state information... Done 

 --- 

 From /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log: 

 2026-04-25 10:49:52,862 DEBUG running doUpdate() (showErrors=True) 
 2026-04-25 10:49:55,388 DEBUG openCache() 
 2026-04-25 10:49:55,746 DEBUG Comparing 6.8.0-107 with 
 2026-04-25 10:49:55,746 DEBUG Comparing 6.8.0-110 with 6.8.0-107 
 2026-04-25 10:49:55,785 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 81819 
 2026-04-25 10:49:55,883 DEBUG Foreign (before rewriting sources): 1password 1password-cli buildah ffmpeg fig2dev firefox gh gimp gimp-data gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0 google-chrome-stable gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad imagemagick imagemagick-6-common imagemagick-6.q16 libavcodec60 libavdevice60 libavfilter9 libavformat60 libavutil58 libcjson1 libgimp2.0t64 libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0 libimage-magick-perl libimage-magick-q16-perl libmagick++-6.q16-9t64 libmagickcore-6.q16-7-extra libmagickcore-6.q16-7t64 libmagickwand-6.q16-7t64 libmbedcrypto7t64 libmbedtls14t64 libmbedx509-1t64 libpostproc57 libqt5core5t64 libqt5dbus5t64 libqt5gui5t64 libqt5network5t64 libqt5widgets5t64 libswresample4 libswscale7 libvlc-bin libvlc5 libvlccore9 libzvbi-common libzvbi0t64 podman podman-docker python3-filelock python3-fonttools python3-virtualenv qt5-gtk-platformtheme vlc vlc-bin vlc-data vlc-l10n vlc-plugin-access-extra vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-qt vlc-plugin-samba vlc-plugin-skins2 vlc-plugin-video-output vlc-plugin-video-splitter vlc-plugin-visualization 
 2026-04-25 10:49:55,883 DEBUG Foreign (after rewriting sources): 
 2026-04-25 10:49:55,883 DEBUG running Quirks.PreDistUpgradeCache 
 2026-04-25 10:49:56,344 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'W:Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository ' https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome-stable/deb  stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386', E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.' 
 2026-04-25 10:49:56,348 DEBUG abort called 
 2026-04-25 10:49:56,349 DEBUG openCache() 
 2026-04-25 10:49:57,552 DEBUG Comparing 6.8.0-107 with 
 2026-04-25 10:49:57,552 DEBUG Comparing 6.8.0-110 with 6.8.0-107 
 2026-04-25 10:49:57,628 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 103198 

 ProblemType: Bug 
 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04 
 Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:24.04.28 
 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-107.107-generic 6.8.12 
 Uname: Linux 6.8.0-107-generic x86_64 
 ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.8 
 Architecture: amd64 
 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass 
 CrashDB: ubuntu 
 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME 
 Date: Sat Apr 25 10:51:38 2026 
 InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-06-07 (1418 days ago) 
 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220419) 
 PackageArchitecture: all 
 ProcEnviron: 
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 
 PATH=(custom, no user) 
 SHELL=/bin/zsh 
 TERM=xterm-256color 
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> 
 SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader 
 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2026-04-25 (0 days ago) 
 VarLogDistupgradeAptHistorylog: 
 Start-Date: 2026-04-25  10:49:40 
 Requested-By: ari (1000) 
 End-Date: 2026-04-25  10:49:40 
 VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog: 
 Log started: 2026-04-25  10:49:40 
 Log ended: 2026-04-25  10:49:40 

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Title:
  lintian breaks upgrade from 24.04 to 26.04

Status in libfile-libmagic-perl package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in libyaml-libyaml-perl package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in lintian package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Checking package manager
  Reading package lists... Done    
  Building dependency tree... Done 
  Reading state information... Done

  Calculating the changes

  Calculating the changes

  Could not calculate the upgrade

  An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

  If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the 
  command 'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a terminal. If 
  you want to investigate this yourself the log files in 
  '/var/log/dist-upgrade' will contain details about the upgrade. 
  Specifically, look at 'main.log' and 'apt.log'. 

  Restoring original system state

  Aborting
  Reading package lists... Done    
  Building dependency tree... Done 
  Reading state information... Done

  ---

  From /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log:

  2026-04-25 10:49:52,862 DEBUG running doUpdate() (showErrors=True)
  2026-04-25 10:49:55,388 DEBUG openCache()
  2026-04-25 10:49:55,746 DEBUG Comparing 6.8.0-107 with 
  2026-04-25 10:49:55,746 DEBUG Comparing 6.8.0-110 with 6.8.0-107
  2026-04-25 10:49:55,785 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 81819
  2026-04-25 10:49:55,883 DEBUG Foreign (before rewriting sources): 1password 1password-cli buildah ffmpeg fig2dev firefox gh gimp gimp-data gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0 google-chrome-stable gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad imagemagick imagemagick-6-common imagemagick-6.q16 libavcodec60 libavdevice60 libavfilter9 libavformat60 libavutil58 libcjson1 libgimp2.0t64 libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0 libimage-magick-perl libimage-magick-q16-perl libmagick++-6.q16-9t64 libmagickcore-6.q16-7-extra libmagickcore-6.q16-7t64 libmagickwand-6.q16-7t64 libmbedcrypto7t64 libmbedtls14t64 libmbedx509-1t64 libpostproc57 libqt5core5t64 libqt5dbus5t64 libqt5gui5t64 libqt5network5t64 libqt5widgets5t64 libswresample4 libswscale7 libvlc-bin libvlc5 libvlccore9 libzvbi-common libzvbi0t64 podman podman-docker python3-filelock python3-fonttools python3-virtualenv qt5-gtk-platformtheme vlc vlc-bin vlc-data vlc-l10n vlc-plugin-access-extra vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-qt vlc-plugin-samba vlc-plugin-skins2 vlc-plugin-video-output vlc-plugin-video-splitter vlc-plugin-visualization
  2026-04-25 10:49:55,883 DEBUG Foreign (after rewriting sources): 
  2026-04-25 10:49:55,883 DEBUG running Quirks.PreDistUpgradeCache
  2026-04-25 10:49:56,344 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'W:Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome-stable/deb stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386', E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.'
  2026-04-25 10:49:56,348 DEBUG abort called
  2026-04-25 10:49:56,349 DEBUG openCache()
  2026-04-25 10:49:57,552 DEBUG Comparing 6.8.0-107 with 
  2026-04-25 10:49:57,552 DEBUG Comparing 6.8.0-110 with 6.8.0-107
  2026-04-25 10:49:57,628 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 103198

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:24.04.28
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-107.107-generic 6.8.12
  Uname: Linux 6.8.0-107-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.8
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sat Apr 25 10:51:38 2026
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-06-07 (1418 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220419)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   SHELL=/bin/zsh
   TERM=xterm-256color
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2026-04-25 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeAptHistorylog:
   Start-Date: 2026-04-25  10:49:40
   Requested-By: ari (1000)
   End-Date: 2026-04-25  10:49:40
  VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog:
   Log started: 2026-04-25  10:49:40
   Log ended: 2026-04-25  10:49:40

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