Unable to upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04. Could not calculate the upgrade. An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade
Unable to upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04. I'm trying sudo do-release-upgrade and it fails with the following error:
Calculating the changes
Could not calculate the upgrade
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
If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the
command 'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a terminal.
Restoring original system state
/var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log https://www.dropbox.com/s/3gf1tg8uxmn75jq/main.log?dl=0 /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log https://www.dropbox.com/s/79i2mf320pvg3bl/apt.log?dl=0
I don't understand why package manager can not resolve this and what package is the source of this problem.
Appreciate any help.
I encountered the same problem using the 'About this computer' > 'Upgrade' route on a fully updated 14.04 LTS system. I have software from quite a few alternative repositories, which several posts suggest might have caused the problem.
grep Broken /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log
reported 163 lines, many of which were gnuplot related. I note a few other posts that reported gnuplot as a problem.
I deleted the two gnuplot packages installed on my system using Synaptic and then closed Synaptic. Interestingly, when filtering with 'installed(upgradeable)' in Synaptic, only these two packages showed up (gnuplot and gnuplotX11) and both had an exclamation mark in the checkbox.
Then do-release-upgrade worked.
Ivo van der Wijk reported in a comment that removing mplayer2 solved this problem and allowed the upgrade to proceed. This solution also worked for me.
The issue is in some package which is may differ from user to user, so there is no common solution that suits every specific case, but there is an algorithm which helped me:
- Try run
sudo do-release-upgrade - Check logs at
/var/log/dist-upgrade/, try to find packages that may cause an error - Remove the packages found in step 2 and return to step 1
I removed several different packages and at some point release upgrade did run well
Use the following command:
grep Broken /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log
In my list, xserver-xorg-video-* is shown. To remove that, run:
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-*