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apt-clone package

  1. Bug #1756862
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 1756862

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Re: upgrade from 17.10 to 18.04 - apt-clone crashed with SystemError in commit(): installArchives() failed

The traceback from apt-clone can be seen here:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apt-clone", line 148, in <module>
    args.source, args.destination, new_distro=args.new_distro_codename, protect_installed=protect_installed)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt_clone.py", line 501, in restore_state
    self._restore_package_selection(statefile, targetdir, protect_installed, exclude_pkgs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt_clone.py", line 656, in _restore_package_selection
    self._restore_package_selection_in_cache(statefile, cache, protect_installed, exclude_pkgs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt_clone.py", line 633, in _restore_package_selection_in_cache
    resolver.resolve()
apt_pkg.Error: E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.