I believe this is affecting me to Tried to upgrade to Quantal errored out pretty quickly after downloaded the packages.
>From then onwards the update-manger and disrubtion upgrade would continue to fail.. going to command line... lzeus@Katana:~$ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libopenal1 ttf-umefont gnome-exe-thumbnailer libunity6 odbcinst1debian2 libglew1.5 libdee-1.0-1 libcapi20-3 libmozjs185-1.0 libopenal-data libcouchdb-glib-1.0-2 odbcinst lib32gcc1 unixodbc lib32asound2 wine-gecko1.4 winetricks icoutils libmpg123-0 lib32stdc++6 libdesktopcouch-glib-1.0-2 libodbc1 libglewmx1.5 libtiff5 libjbig0 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: dmsetup libjbig0 libtiff5 The following packages will be REMOVED ia32-libs skype wine wine1.3 wine1.4 wine1.4-amd64 wine1.4-common The following NEW packages will be installed libjbig0 libtiff5 The following packages will be upgraded: dmsetup 1 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 7 to remove and 1332 not upgraded. 30 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/233 kB of archives. After this operation, 140 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 51120 package 'libesd0:i386': mixed non-coinstallable and coinstallable package instances present E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) I tried the Mult-arch fix but doesn't seem get further -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1015567 Title: upgrade failed: mixed non-coinstallable and coinstallable package instances present To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1015567/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs