can not upgrade to 19.10 do to unmet dependancies

[steve7233]

The following packages have unmet dependancies:

nvidia-settings/disco 440.26-0ubuntu0~gpu19.04.1 amd64 [upgradable from: 418.56-0ubuntu1]
nvidia-settings/disco,now 418.56-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 440.26-0ubuntu0~gpu19.04.1]

When executing:

sudo do-release-upgrade -m desktop

I get: [#]Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.[/#]
Muon says that some updates have unmet dependancies and could not be marked.

[Worzel]

Possibly try sudo apt update and then sudo apt upgrade - 'upgrade' often sorts out problems before using sudo apt full-upgrade to get everything done. Generally always worked for me!

[steve7233]

I already tried that.

[claydoh]

I already tried that.

So, what does running apt full-upgrade show for errors? These will give a better report of what the actual dependency problems are.

[sithlord48]

Use the command

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

Upgraded to 19.10 this way this afternoon.

[steve7233]

Use the command

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

Upgraded to 19.10 this way this afternoon.

steve7233@steve7233-Z68XP-UD3:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade -d
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.
steve7233@steve7233-Z68XP-UD3:~$

Maybe something got borked?

[claydoh]

We could tell more if we had the actual apt error messages......

[steve7233]

We could tell more if we had the actual apt error messages...

I copied and pasted the output of all those commands you guys suggested. If there were any error messages then they would be there. Are there any logs someplace that might give useful information?

[steve7233]

Perhapes apt needs to be more verbose is there a switch that makes the ouput more verbose?

[steve7233]

I just found this. Hopefully this is the problem.
https://www.liquidweb.com/kb/trouble...ase-upgrading/

[steve7233]

Rats that one didn't work for me. I'll try another. I guess Google search isn't perfect after all.

[steve7233]

Doing more rsearch I found this:

steve7233@steve7233-Z68XP-UD3:~$ sudo apt list --upgradable
Listing... Done
nvidia-settings/disco 440.26-0ubuntu0~gpu19.04.1 amd64 [upgradable from: 418.56-0ubuntu1]
N: There is 1 additional version. Please use the '-a' switch to see it
steve7233@steve7233-Z68XP-UD3:~$ sudo apt list --upgradable -a
Listing... Done
nvidia-settings/disco 440.26-0ubuntu0~gpu19.04.1 amd64 [upgradable from: 418.56-0ubuntu1]
nvidia-settings/disco,now 418.56-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 440.26-0ubuntu0~gpu19.04.1]

steve7233@steve7233-Z68XP-UD3:~$

Any advice on how to proced?

[steve7233]

I just tried using Muon to upgrade nvidia-settings and the apply button remains greyed out. Does this suggest the package is broken or something? If I remove it will it hurt my driver?

[acheron]

The following packages have unmet dependancies:

nvidia-settings/disco 440.26-0ubuntu0~gpu19.04.1 amd64 [upgradable from: 418.56-0ubuntu1]
nvidia-settings/disco,now 418.56-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 440.26-0ubuntu0~gpu19.04.1]

This looks to be a packaging error in 'nvidia-settings' in the graphics drivers PPA. That packaging declares that it depends on the package screen-resolution-extra (>= 0.18~), but disco only has version 0.17.4.

One temporary solution may be to remove the nvidia-settings package, upgrade, then reinstall it? Or ppa-purge the ppa 1st.

[steve7233]

Today's update fixes this. I posted in nvidia forums so that may be why it got fixed but it offered to do the update when I checked. I have to go to work in a few minutes so I aborted the upgrade until I get home but tonight I should be able to get 19.10. Yes, acheron you were right. The update was to fix nvidia-settings. The screen resolution thing. I knew there had to be something borked. I was right. It was one of the nividia packages. Whether NVIDIA goofed or the Ubuntu devs goofed someone goofed.