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I tried to upgrade Ubuntu 23.04 to 23.10 by running sudo do-release-upgrade and got this error:

Checking package manager
Reading package lists... Done    
Building dependency tree... Done 
Reading state information... Done


Calculating the changes


Calculating the changes


Could not calculate the upgrade


An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.


This was likely caused by:


    

  • Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
Please use the tool 'ppa-purge' from the ppa-purge
package to remove software from a Launchpad PPA and
try the upgrade again.

I looked at the log files and this is the only ERROR I saw:

2023-11-10 11:23:46,189 DEBUG Marking 'ubuntu-desktop' for upgrade
2023-11-10 11:23:46,389 WARNING Can't mark 'ubuntu-desktop' for upgrade (E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.)
2023-11-10 11:23:46,541 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'Broken packages after upgrade: ubuntu-desktop'

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list




See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to


newer versions of the distribution.


deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar main restricted


deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar main restricted


Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the


distribution.


deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar-updates main restricted


deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar-updates main restricted


N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu


team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any


review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.


deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar universe


deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar universe


deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar-updates universe


deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar-updates universe


N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu


team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to


your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in


multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu


security team.


deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar multiverse


deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar multiverse


deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar-updates multiverse


deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar-updates multiverse


N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as


extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes


newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.


Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review


or updates from the Ubuntu security team.


deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar-backports main restricted universe multiverse


deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar-backports main restricted universe multiverse


deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar-security main restricted


deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar-security main restricted


deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar-security universe


deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar-security universe


deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar-security multiverse


deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar-security multiverse


$ ll /etc/apt/sources.list.d
total 56
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112 Nov 10 11:23 docker.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112 Nov 10 07:02 docker.list.distUpgrade
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  67 Nov 10 11:23 dropbox.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  67 Nov 10 07:02 dropbox.list.distUpgrade
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 121 Nov 10 11:23 github-cli.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 121 Nov 10 07:02 github-cli.list.distUpgrade
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 190 Nov 10 11:23 google-chrome.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 190 Nov 10 07:02 google-chrome.list.distUpgrade
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 193 Nov 10 11:23 slack.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 193 Nov 10 07:02 slack.list.distUpgrade
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 203 Nov 10 11:23 vscode.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 203 Nov 10 07:02 vscode.list.distUpgrade
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  55 Nov 10 11:23 zulip-desktop.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  55 Nov 10 07:02 zulip-desktop.list.distUpgrade

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list
deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu   lunar stable
deb [arch=i386,amd64] http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu kinetic main
deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main
### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###
# You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost.
deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###
# You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost.
deb https://packagecloud.io/slacktechnologies/slack/debian/ jessie main
### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###
# You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost.
deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf] http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main
deb https://download.zulip.com/desktop/apt stable main

From /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log:

 MarkDelete ubuntu-desktop-minimal:amd64 < 1.501 @ii umH Ib > FU=0


Investigating (2) ubuntu-desktop:amd64 < 1.501 -> 1.524 @ii pumU Ib >
Broken ubuntu-desktop:amd64 Depends on gdm3:amd64 < 44.0-1ubuntu2 @ii umR >
Considering gdm3:amd64 16 as a solution to ubuntu-desktop:amd64 10001
Added gdm3:amd64 to the remove list
Broken ubuntu-desktop:amd64 Depends on gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-tiling-assistant:amd64 < none @un mH >
Considering gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-tiling-assistant:amd64 1 as a solution to ubuntu-desktop:amd64 10001
Broken ubuntu-desktop:amd64 Depends on ubuntu-desktop-minimal:amd64 < 1.501 @ii umR >
Considering ubuntu-desktop-minimal:amd64 1 as a solution to ubuntu-desktop:amd64 10001
Added ubuntu-desktop-minimal:amd64 to the remove list
MarkKeep gdm3:amd64 < 44.0-1ubuntu2 @ii umR > FU=0
Fixing ubuntu-desktop:amd64 via keep of gdm3:amd64
MarkKeep ubuntu-desktop-minimal:amd64 < 1.501 @ii umR > FU=0
Fixing ubuntu-desktop:amd64 via keep of ubuntu-desktop-minimal:amd64
Investigating (2) gdm3:amd64 < 44.0-1ubuntu2 @ii umH Ib >
Broken gdm3:amd64 Depends on gir1.2-gdm-1.0:amd64 < 44.0-1ubuntu2 -> 45~beta-1ubuntu1 @ii umU > (= 44.0-1ubuntu2)
Considering gir1.2-gdm-1.0:amd64 16 as a solution to gdm3:amd64 10001
Added gir1.2-gdm-1.0:amd64 to the remove list
Broken gdm3:amd64 Depends on libgdm1:amd64 < 44.0-1ubuntu2 -> 45~beta-1ubuntu1 @ii umU > (= 44.0-1ubuntu2)
Considering libgdm1:amd64 6 as a solution to gdm3:amd64 10001
Added libgdm1:amd64 to the remove list
MarkKeep gir1.2-gdm-1.0:amd64 < 44.0-1ubuntu2 -> 45~beta-1ubuntu1 @ii umU > FU=0
Fixing gdm3:amd64 via keep of gir1.2-gdm-1.0:amd64
MarkKeep libgdm1:amd64 < 44.0-1ubuntu2 -> 45~beta-1ubuntu1 @ii umU > FU=0
Fixing gdm3:amd64 via keep of libgdm1:amd64
Try to Re-Instate (2) libgdm1:amd64
MarkKeep libgdm1:amd64 < 44.0-1ubuntu2 -> 45~beta-1ubuntu1 @ii umU > FU=0
Investigating (3) ubuntu-desktop:amd64 < 1.501 -> 1.524 @ii pumU Ib >
Broken ubuntu-desktop:amd64 Depends on gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-tiling-assistant:amd64 < none @un mH >
Considering gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-tiling-assistant:amd64 1 as a solution to ubuntu-desktop:amd64 10001
Try to Re-Instate (3) gir1.2-gdm-1.0:amd64
MarkKeep gir1.2-gdm-1.0:amd64 < 44.0-1ubuntu2 -> 45~beta-1ubuntu1 @ii umU > FU=0
Done


$ apt policy ubuntu-desktop
ubuntu-desktop:
  Installed: 1.501
  Candidate: 1.501
  Version table:
 *** 1.501 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Any idea what to do now?

szabgab
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  • What is the output of apt policy ubuntu-desktop? Also you have ppas pointing to kinetic and debian jessie which is bad news. – Organic Marble Nov 10 '23 at 13:05
  • For a Upgrade from one version to another, you certainly need to disable all sources except the Ubuntu sources. This can be achieved by putting a # in front every line for every file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d. Once you have done that, please run sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade. In case any errors occur, please edit your questions and post the full error message(s). – noisefloor Nov 10 '23 at 13:26
  • @noisefloor I've moved away all the files from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and ran the updates, but still get the same error. I've added the errors from apt.log – szabgab Nov 10 '23 at 13:37
  • @OrganicMarble added the output of apt policy ubuntu-desktop to the question – szabgab Nov 10 '23 at 13:39
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    Unfortunately just disabling all the sources is not enough. You have to remove all the packages that were installed from those sources. That's what the program ppa-purge that was mentioned in some of the output you quoted does. If you don't want to do that, the only way I can see to approach this is to go through all the packages mentioned in the apt-log output and try to see which one(s) come from problematic sources (using apt policy). Good luck, and in future don't add ppas from other distros and other versions of Ubuntu. – Organic Marble Nov 10 '23 at 14:12
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    Please add the output of dpkg --get-selections | grep hold and apt-mark showhold – Raffa Nov 10 '23 at 15:40
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    You should report this problem to Ubuntu, in-place upgrades to 23.10 are broken. While in your case the 3rd-party PPAs might have made the problem worse, even installs that don't use PPAs at all can't be upgraded to 23.10. – P Varga Nov 13 '23 at 00:17

3 Answers3

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Had the same issue. What ended up working for me was

sudo apt reinstall gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-tiling-assistant
sudo apt reinstall ubuntu-desktop
sudo do-release-upgrade
alix
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  • This worked for me as well. After the upgrade and reboot I had to also run sudo apt reinstall gnome-remote-desktop and that seems to have solved all the problems.

    Thank you!

     – szabgab Nov 11 '23 at 03:09
  • I had the same problem! I had snippets like this in my /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log:

    Broken ubuntu-desktop:amd64 Depends on gdm3:amd64 < 44.0-1ubuntu2 @ii umR > Considering gdm3:amd64 16 as a solution to ubuntu-desktop:amd64 10001 Added gdm3:amd64 to the remove list Broken ubuntu-desktop:amd64 Depends on gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-tiling-assistant:amd64 < none @un mH > Considering gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-tiling-assistant:amd64 1 as a solution to ubuntu-desktop:amd64 10001

     – JJ Brown Nov 11 '23 at 05:10
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    getting: >E: Unable to locate package gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-tiling-assistant – MeSo2 Nov 11 '23 at 15:04
  • I had this same problem, but I didn't have gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-tiling-assistant installed. I was able to proceed with the upgrade after sudo apt reinstall ubuntu-desktop. – Jos Nov 11 '23 at 18:20
  • @MeSo2 I'm hitting the same problem, in that gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-tiling-assistant is blocking my upgrade, but it doesn't seem to exist in any of my repos. (I think it might have been removed from Jammy in March 2022?.) I'm trying to update to 24.04 from 22.04. Did you manage to find a solution? – craq Jan 12 '25 at 23:46
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I ran into this as well. The only thing that worked for me was following the advice from https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/xcaurm/help_cant_mark_ubuntudesktop_for_upgrade_while/. Though I had to uninstall a larger set of packages. When the Ubuntu install finished it left me in the terminal until I re-installed those packages, so save the list in a text file or somewhere accessible from the terminal.

sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq ubuntu-desktop gnome-remote-desktop gnome-shell gdm3 cinnamon-core ubuntu-desktop-minimal mutter gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng gnome-shell-extension-appindicator ubuntu-sessio
Ben McCann
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    I'm glad that it worked for you, but --force-remove-reinstreq is a very bad idea for most common problems and should be used only as a last resort. It does not actually remove the files, leaving them in place to be cleaned up by you manually. For most users, it replaces one big problem with a different big problem. – user535733 Nov 11 '23 at 02:45
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You can get gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-tiling-assistant from packages.ubuntu.com. It is available in 4 versions from 46-1ubuntu1 to 48-1ubuntu1.

wget https://packages.ubuntu.com/noble/gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-tiling-assistant;
sudo apt install ./gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-tiling-assistant;
sudo apt update; {optional}
sudo apt -f install {optional, = fix}

As it might not be the exact version, you may experience problems, but I've found similar hacks in the past to work.

Sometimes you have to force the install, sudo dpkg --install --force-depends --force-overwrite [PKGNAME]. But be sure you understand from man dpkg what the flags will do.

pbhj
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  • that will install the noble package, right? Would you expect there to be compatibility issues when the rest of my system is still jammy? There must have been some reason why they discontinued it for jammy? – craq Jan 15 '25 at 02:51
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    I'm sorry, I don't know, I only addressed the issue of installing this package -- I'm not able to test it with the configuration you have. Maybe you can try it and uninstall if this solution doesn't work for you. HTH. – pbhj Jan 21 '25 at 20:26
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    thanks for the suggestion. That's a little to high risk for me. I feel more comfortable (and a higher chance of success) reinstalling from scratch than installing unsupported packages. – craq Jan 22 '25 at 03:54