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I am trying to upgrade ubuntu 14.04 but I have somehow messed up my packaging system. When I run sudo do sudo do-release-upgrade I get the following message and the upgrade is aborted:

An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

This can be caused by: * Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu * Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu * Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu

I have looked around on the internet and found similar problems. However, when I check the /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log for broken packages, it get several hundred lines of broken packages. I the cases I have found so far, only a few packages hass been broken. The first hundred or so lines of the output containing the term "Broken" are

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So far, I have disabled all PPAs and removed a couple of packages. Of course, the number of broken packages decrease but I do not want to remove all packages in the list.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to proceed?

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  • Try restoring your sources list with sudo rm -r /etc/apt/sources* and then sudo software-properties-gtk. When the software-properties window pops up, enable the repositories you need. Note: This will remove ALL of the sources files, so any PPAs you have previously added will need to be re-added. Then do a sudo apt-get upate and try again.
    – user323419
    Jan 15, 2016 at 16:00
  • The output of apt-cache policy sudo apt-get check and sudo dpkg -C, just as start.
    – Braiam
    Jan 15, 2016 at 16:26

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Assumptions:

  • Started on 14.04
  • Ran sudo do-release-upgrade which attempted to upgrade to 15.04.
  • Upgrade failure happened, because of some issue with some software not being updated fully first (ALWAYS run sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade BEFORE running do-release-upgrade)

Assuming both of my assumptions above here are correct, then you've broken your system. The 14.04 to 15.04 direct upgrade path which was a fairly newly introduced upgrade path solution is not a guaranteed-to-work solution - it has broken severly in the past and left people with broken-beyond-easy-fix repairs.

Given that the broken software list you have is insanely large, contains core software in the list, and fixes tried have failed, the only option really left to you is to cleanly install 14.04 or your target release, after backing up the data you wish to keep.

This is, unfortunately, the only true way to fix a horribly broken system; in this case, fixing each package will be extraordinarily difficult and you may be better off just cleanly installing, which is the fastest fix. Back up your data first, though, so you don't lose it, and can restore it after fresh installing.

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  • Any idea how OP might have "horribly broken" his system? I'm having the same issue, with similar output, and I've never tampered with anything listed. From my inexperienced research, it seems like a recent Ubuntu update became dependent upon a newer g++ library, which is causing some other packages to be "blocked" somehow. I came across this while trying to build Dolphin Emulator in 14.04, which needed a specific GCC version. I decided to try upgrading to the supported release when that failed, but then this happened... Jan 19, 2016 at 5:43
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Uninstalling the package mentioned last in the list of broken packages in /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log (which in my case was the tex-live package) void that error. I was a bit surprised that one package could generate such a long list of broken packages.

As the upgrade to 15.04 was complete, broken packages appeared once again. This time it seemed to originate from libstc++. Naturally, I did not want to remove that library because of the large number of packages depending on it. So i messed around with apt-get with various arguments (dist-upgrade, update, upgrade etc.) to no success. Finally I removed ubuntu-desktop and unity to see if I could re-install them. Ubuntu desktop since it was listed first and unity since Ubuntu desktop was depending on that package, which were reported as being held when I tried to re-install Ubuntu desktop. As I were unable to re-install Ubuntu desktop I decided to try to upgrade to 15.10 hoping that any issues would be resolved during that process. As the upgrade was complete, I reinstalled Ubuntu desktop and Unity and then, to my big surprise, the system worked.

To summarize, I were not aware the it was necessary to run apt-get dist-upgrade before an upgrade of the system and perhaps that would have resolved the situation. Unfortunately I can not give a direct answer to what caused the system to suddenly work again, but apparently libstdc++ were updated thus allowing all other packages to be updated.

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  • Thank you. I think this will solve my problem, similar to OP's. Jan 19, 2016 at 5:45

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