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xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package

dist-upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10 fails

Asked by Tony van der Hoff

Towards the end of the install, KpackageKit pops up an error window:
Error during commit 'E:Couldn't configure pre-depend x-11-common for x11-xkb-utils, probably a dependency cycle.' Restoring original system state.

This doesn't appear to be a known bug; can anyone advise me of how to proceed from here?

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Jeruvy (jeruvy) said : 		#1

This does appear to be a bug, but lets see if this fixes it for you.

I found this link relating to your problem and it appears the last posting in this thread has a working solution. If this works please let me know, if not we shall see what else we can find to solve this for you.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1592894

Good luck.

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Tony van der Hoff (tony-vanderhoff) said : 		#2

Ok, thanks for the heads-up.

I applied the suggestions from gwitt, but now see the following message:

Calculating upgrade... Failed
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  libdrm-nouveau1: Breaks: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (< 1:0.0.16) but 1:0.0.15+git20100219+9b4118d-0ubuntu5 is to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

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Tony van der Hoff (tony-vanderhoff) said : 		#3

Well, I appear to have sorted the problem by clearing the module cache, and repeating the dist-upgrade.

I am now running averick.

Thanks to all who helped