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  1. Bug #717430
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Comment 5 for bug 717430

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Walter Motaung (wmotaung) wrote : Re: [Bug 717430] Re: could not upgrade os from 10.4 to 10.10. message:pkg problemresolverr

Extremely thankful for guide: It did the trick. Thanx a lot

On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 14:15 +0000, Manfred Hampl wrote:
> This can be a duplicate of bug 614993 (and dozens of similar ones)
>
> If the package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is installed, in several cases
> the 10.04 to 10.10 upgrade fails with the error message
>
> "Could not determine the upgrade
> An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
> E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
> 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"
>
> Several persons have reported that after removal of that package the
> upgrade was successful.
>
> Try this workaround: Open a terminal and enter the command:
>
> sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
>
> and try the upgrade again.
>