updates blocked

[blairm]

Hi,

Running Jaunty and for some reason I'm unable to get some updates: instead I get a message that 4 updates are blocked. Anyone else having this problem? And any idea how to fix it?

Not sure whether it's relevant, but the blocked packages are:
linux-restricted-modules-generic-2.6.22.14.21
brasero-0.8.2-0ubuntu1
linux-generic-2.6.22.14.21
mcpp-2.6.4-1ubuntu2
None of them has an entry next to the repository tag when I click on them for more information.

Cheers,

Blair

[brasslover]

Re: updates blocked

Open up a console and try this:

First update the list of packages from the repositories.

sudo apt-get update

Now run the following and look at the output. This command will attempt to do a normal system upgrade.

sudo apt-get upgrade

Look at the output from the upgrade command and see if includes something like:
The following packages have been kept back:

If apt identifies that packages have been held back then the following will usually resolve the issue:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[gerryggg]

Re: updates blocked

Open up a console and try this:

First update the list of packages from the repositories.

sudo apt-get update

Now run the following and look at the output. This command will attempt to do a normal system upgrade.

sudo apt-get upgrade

Look at the output from the upgrade command and see if includes something like:
The following packages have been kept back:

If apt identifies that packages have been held back then the following will usually resolve the issue:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

I was experiencing the same problem after upgrading. It kept tell me the Linux headers were blocked. This fixed it. Thanks a lot. These forums are great.

[birkopf]

Re: updates blocked

It helped me as well, I had the same problem.
Thanks Brasssolver.

(Gerryggg - you should go back to first post now, click modify and put "SOLVED" into topic)