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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1702714
Title:
Upgrade to 4.10 hwe kernel will cause xserver-* and ubuntu-desktop to
be removed
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Test case:
1. Install 16.04.2 + upgrade, make sure input devices, hotkeys are working
2. Enable proposed, run dist-upgrade to upgrade to 4.10
Expect result:
* Everything should work without problem.
Actual result:
* APT will try to remove some vital packages for dekstop environment, like
ubuntu-desktop, xorg and xserver-*
This issue was spotted on Dell Inspiron 7460 CID:201606-22348
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for ubuntu:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
linux-signed-image-4.10.0-27-generic linux-signed-image-generic-hwe-16.04
snap-confine
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
ubuntu-desktop xorg xserver-xorg-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-input-all-hwe-16.04
xserver-xorg-input-evdev-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-hwe-16.04
xserver-xorg-input-wacom-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-video-all-hwe-16.04
xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-video-ati-hwe-16.04
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-video-intel-hwe-16.04
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-video-qxl-hwe-16.04
xserver-xorg-video-radeon-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-video-vesa-hwe-16.04
xserver-xorg-video-vmware-hwe-16.04
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libinput-bin libllvm4.0 libxfont2 linux-headers-4.10.0-27
linux-headers-4.10.0-27-generic linux-image-4.10.0-27-generic
linux-image-extra-4.10.0-27-generic linux-signed-image-4.10.0-27-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
apport apport-gtk binutils coreutils cups cups-browsed cups-bsd cups-client
cups-common cups-core-drivers cups-daemon cups-filters
cups-filters-core-drivers cups-ppdc cups-server-common grub-common
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64-signed grub2-common
libcups2 libcupscgi1 libcupsfilters1 libcupsimage2 libcupsmime1 libcupsppdc1
libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2
libegl1-mesa libepoxy0 libfontembed1 libgail-common libgail18 libgbm1
libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin
libgtk2.0-common libinput10 libsane libsane-common libunity-control-center1
libunity-gtk2-parser0 libunity-gtk3-parser0 libwacom-bin libwacom-common
libwacom2 libwayland-client0 libwayland-cursor0 libwayland-egl1-mesa
libwayland-server0 libxatracker2 libxfont1 linux-generic-hwe-16.04
linux-headers-generic-hwe-16.04 linux-image-generic-hwe-16.04 linux-libc-dev
linux-signed-image-generic-hwe-16.04 python3-apport python3-problem-report
sane-utils signon-ui signon-ui-service signon-ui-x11 snap-confine snapd sudo
ubuntu-core-launcher ubuntu-drivers-common unity-control-center
unity-control-center-faces unity-gtk-module-common unity-gtk2-module
unity-gtk3-module xfonts-utils xserver-xorg-core-hwe-16.04
81 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 17 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 109 MB of archives.
After this operation, 363 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: linux-image-4.8.0-58-generic 4.8.0-58.63~16.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-58.63~16.04.1-generic 4.8.17
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-58-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Jul 6 11:37:10 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-06 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
(20170209)
SourcePackage: linux-hwe
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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