Can't upgrade from 22.04 to 24.04, complains about held broken packages

[joan-creus]

OK, then, I’ll do that tomorrow. If it comes to a manual upgrade, I need a fresh mind.

[joan-creus]

OK, I got back to work, after some apt dist-upgrade, apt upgrade and apt full-upgrade (the process got hung, had to reboot, …) the computer is mostly updated, but:

• Graphics don’t start, I am stuck in text mode
• apt upgrade reports two held packages
• apt install ubuntu-desktop^ (with the caret) complains about five more broken packages

dpkg --configure -a and apt install -f don’t make a difference. Help will be much appreciated.

LANG=C sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
2 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

 LANG=C sudo apt install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

 LANG=C sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done

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The following packages have been kept back:
  libtiff-dev xdg-desktop-portal
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

startx complains about xf86EnableIO: failed to enable I/O ports 0000-03ff (Operation not permitted)

But I guess the problem is mostly with the installation of ubuntu-desktop, which is in this link.

[popey]

AHAH! We have the likely culprit for this whole shenanigans.

This ppa.

From your linked log.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 gstreamer1.0-pipewire : Depends: pipewire (= 1.0.5-1ubuntu2) but 1.2.7-1~22.04.sav0 is to be installed
 libpipewire-0.3-0t64 : Depends: libspa-0.2-modules (= 1.0.5-1ubuntu2) but 1.2.7-1~22.04.sav0 is to be installed
 libspa-0.2-bluetooth : Depends: libspa-0.2-modules (= 1.0.5-1ubuntu2) but 1.2.7-1~22.04.sav0 is to be installed
 pipewire-alsa : Depends: pipewire (= 1.0.5-1ubuntu2) but 1.2.7-1~22.04.sav0 is to be installed
 pipewire-pulse : Depends: pipewire (= 1.0.5-1ubuntu2) but 1.2.7-1~22.04.sav0 is to be installed
eUnable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.e

Pipewire 1.2.7-1~22.04.sav0 is from here.

Good, now we can probably fix it.

sudo apt install pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse gstreamer1.0-pipewire pipewire=1.0.5-1ubuntu2 libspa-0.2-modules=1.0.5-1ubuntu2

This should/may solve the issue you have at the bottom of this link.

If it works, I would finish with a final:

sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop^

Which should end clean.

If my one-line does not fix it, then it will likely output more errors about other packages. The strategy here is to replace the PPA packages with the ones from the official archives. That’s what the = sign is for, forcing the version it wants. This will tell you it’s “downgrading” those packages, which is fine.

Let’s see the output from that please.

[joan-creus]

OK, apart from the ones you suggested, I had to add libpipewire-0.3-modules=1.0.5-1ubuntu2 and pipewire-bin=1.0.5-1ubuntu2

The dist-upgrade updated xdg-desktop-portal but left out libtiff-dev (doesn’t look that critical, though)

The install ubuntu-desktop^ went fine, caret and all, and I have a desktop again. Yay!

As for the libtiff-dev, I see that it depends from the same ppa, so I have done as you said, and now everything is up to date

Thank you very much!