[Bug 1653360] [NEW] cannot upgrade to 16.10

2016-12-31 Thread Burt Silverman
Public bug reported: I met all the conditions presumably but I still cannot upgrade and it won't tell me what package it finds offensive. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:16.04.19 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-57.78-generic 4.4.35 Uname: Li

[Bug 1653360] Re: cannot upgrade to 16.10

2016-12-31 Thread Burt Silverman
I found a way to get around the problem. I look at the Broken/Conflicts packages in /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log. One by one, I attempt to remove them from the system using synaptic. If a removal will cause a few other packages to get removed, and those do not include the Ubuntu Desktop, I go ahea