I can confirm, same error after clean install of hardy-alpha3 the update-manager on the live cd told me: update-manager: Error communicating with the backend. Please report this as a bug.
but running it anyways gave this: not all updates can be installed run a partian upgrade, to install as many updates as possible. this can be caused by: a previous upgrade which didn't complete unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu Norman changes of a pre-release version of Ubuntu choosing partial upgrade gives: Could not calculate the upgrade A unresolvable problem occured while calculating the pugrade. Please report htis bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport. the dir only contained apt.log (attached) ** Attachment added: "apt.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11333692/apt.log -- [Hardy] update-manager could not calculate the upgrade in a partial update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/181762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs