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When I try to upgrade from Ubuntu Gnome 13.10 to Ubuntu 14.04, the upgrade application fails with the following message:



Could not calculate the upgrade. 
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.`


Here is the complete log:



$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 13.10
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$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking package manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done

Calculating the changes

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

Aborting
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done


Am I missing something? or it is just a bug?



UPDATE:
I analyzed the log file and found that do-release-upgrade is complaining about some obsolete packages.



$ cat /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log | grep Obsolete
2014-04-28 09:16:23,678 DEBUG Obsolete: flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound:i386 (..)


After removing those packages, I was able to proceed with the upgrade.


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 Answers
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  1. Look in /var/log for release-upgrader log files that will have more details.


  2. The error message explains:




This can be caused by:
...
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu



So, do you have any software from PPAs installed, or have you edited any of the default sources? If so, that's probably the problem. Disable any PPAs or other third-party repos and try again. If it still doesn't work you might need to actually uninstall some packages or replace them with versions from the official repos.


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