Public bug reported: I have a VM that I've upgraded across several releases. It was originally installed with Xubuntu; I forget what release. It's been running Groovy (20.10) for a few months, and I recently (re)installed MATE. I ran "update-manager -d" to upgrade to Hirsute beta. It failed and suggested the problem might be transient. But trying again a day or 2 later failed as well. This time I checked the logs, and main.log shows complaints about held broken packages. I don't currently have any broken packages (according to Synaptic), and "apt-mark showhold" displays nothing, so I assume this is a packaging problem related to the upgrade.
ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10 Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:20.10.14 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-48.54-generic 5.8.18 Uname: Linux 5.8.0-48-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.5 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CrashDB: ubuntu CurrentDesktop: MATE Date: Mon Apr 5 21:15:00 2021 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-16 (1085 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.4 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20180228) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to groovy on 2021-04-06 (0 days ago) VarLogDistupgradeTermlog: ** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade groovy groovy2hirsute -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1922637 Title: held broken packages trying to upgrade from Groovy to Hirsute (Xubuntu, MATE) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1922637/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs