[ILUG] Upgrade from Ubuntu G Gibbon to H Heron aborts?

[FRLinux]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:01 PM, John Kinsella <John.Kinsella at ul.ie> wrote:
> Hi
> last few lines of apt.log are:
>
> Investigating pulseaudio-esound-compat
> Package pulseaudio-esound-compat has broken dep on esound
>   Considering esound 0 as a solution to pulseaudio-esound-compat 0
>   Holding Back pulseaudio-esound-compat rather than change esound
> Investigating restricted-manager
> Package restricted-manager has broken dep on restricted-manager-core
>   Considering restricted-manager-core 1 as a solution to restricted-manager
> -1
>   Removing restricted-manager rather than change restricted-manager-core
> Investigating libgnomekbdui1
> Package libgnomekbdui1 has broken dep on libgnomekbd1
>   Considering libgnomekbd1 1 as a solution to libgnomekbdui1 -1
>   Removing libgnomekbdui1 rather than change libgnomekbd1
> Investigating ubuntu-desktop
> Package ubuntu-desktop has broken dep on pulseaudio-esound-compat
>   Considering pulseaudio-esound-compat 0 as a solution to ubuntu-desktop 0
>   Removing ubuntu-desktop rather than change pulseaudio-esound-compat
> Done
>
> Then last few lines of main.log:
>
> 2008-06-03 12:33:41,879 DEBUG running hardyQuirks handler
> 2008-06-03 12:33:41,879 DEBUG running _checkAndRemoveEvms
> 2008-06-03 12:33:41,979 DEBUG Kernel uname: '2.6.22-14-generic'
> 2008-06-03 12:33:42,337 DEBUG The package 'ubuntu-desktop' is marked for
> removal but it's in the removal blacklist
> 2008-06-03 12:33:42,350 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'A essential package
> would have to be removed'
>
> So is pulseaudio the problem/

Yup, apparently, there's a bug reported with no solution and it even
got closed : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/222048

This one is more interesting :
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/30619

Try to comment restricted in /etc/apt/sources.list and run it again.
Steph