Comment 24 for bug 446956

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 address hidden>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
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>
> 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
>