Release upgrade fails with error about PPAs -- but no PPAs installed
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I ran update-manager to upgrade to Ubuntu 23.10. It downloaded a bunch of stuff and churned for a while, and then popped up this error dialog:
> Could not calculate the upgrade
>
> An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.
>
> This was likely caused by:
> * Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
> Please use the tool 'ppa-purge' from the ppa-purge
> package to remove software from a Launchpad PPA and
> try the upgrade again.
>
> If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the command 'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-
I do have several third-party repos configured in /etc/apt/
```
$ cat brave-browser-
deb [signed-
$ cat google-
deb [signed-
$ cat ngrok.list
# deb https:/
$ cat slack.list
### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###
# You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost.
# deb https:/
$ cat vscode.list
### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###
# You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost.
# deb [arch=amd64,
```
The bottom of /var/log/
```
2023-11-10 18:38:31,862 DEBUG Marking 'ubuntu-desktop' for upgrade
2023-11-10 18:38:32,045 WARNING Can't mark 'ubuntu-desktop' for upgrade (E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.)
2023-11-10 18:38:32,045 DEBUG Marking 'xubuntu-desktop' for upgrade
2023-11-10 18:38:32,210 WARNING Can't mark 'xubuntu-desktop' for upgrade (E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.)
```
Hmmmmmmmmm.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: ubuntu-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-1007-
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
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CrashDB: ubuntu
CrashReports:
600:117:
644:1000:
640:1000:
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri Nov 10 18:40:52 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-11-28 (347 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic Kudu" - Release amd64 (20221020)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: ubuntu-
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to lunar on 2023-11-10 (0 days ago)
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Trying to repair the broken packages did nothing:
```
$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
$ sudo apt-get -f install ubuntu-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
ubuntu-desktop is already the newest version (1.501).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
$ sudo apt-get -f install xubuntu-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
xubuntu-desktop is already the newest version (2.248).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
```