I reran the update 30 minutes later and did not see the bug again. Your theory seems reasonable.
-Jon On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Michael Vogt <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks for your bugreport and for the logs. > > I suspect that the problem is that the mirrors are overloaded and that this > is insufficiently captured from update-manager and that it presents a bogus > error message. If that happens to you, could you please run in a terminal: > $ ls -R /var/lib/apt/lists > /tmp/lists.txt > and attach /tmp/lists.txt ? > > Could you also please run "sudo apt-get update" afterwards and see it > shows any errors or warnings? > > ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) > Importance: Undecided => High > > ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Confirmed > > ** Summary changed: > > - Upgrade from Ubuntu UNR 9.04 to 9.10 fails with essential package > 'ubuntu-minimal' can not be found anymore > + Upgrade from Ubuntu UNR 9.04 to 9.10 fails with essential package > 'ubuntu-minimal' can not be found anymore (mirror overloaded?) > > -- > Upgrade from Ubuntu UNR 9.04 to 9.10 fails with essential package > 'ubuntu-minimal' can not be found anymore (mirror overloaded?) > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446956 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: update-manager > > Upgrade from UNR 9.04 to 9.10 fails after having retreived all the > necessary files with the following error: > > ---- > Invalid package information > > After your package information was updated the essential package > 'ubuntu-minimal' can not be found anymore. > This indicates a serious error, please report this bug against the > 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in > the bug report. > ---- > > ProblemType: Bug > Architecture: i386 > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 > Package: update-manager 1:0.111.9 > PackageArchitecture: all > ProcEnviron: > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: update-manager > Tags: ubuntu-unr > Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686 > -- Upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 fails with essential package 'ubuntu-minimal' can not be found anymore (mirror overloaded) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446956 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
