<SOLVED> Synaptic: "Mark All Upgrades" won't mark the upgradable packages

[philotux]

Trying to perform the upgrades via Synaptic (version 0.84.2), I noticed that the "Mark All Upgrades" button in the toolbar will not mark the packages to be upgraded. Also right clicking on the upgradable packages the option for "Mark for Upgrade" is greyed out. Purging and reinstalling haven't solved the issue. I use Synaptic quite often for package management, so I appreciate your help to make it work again.

TIA

System info:

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inxi -Fxzr
System:    Host: mx Kernel: 4.19.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: MX-18.1_x64 Continuum Dec 20  2018 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Vostro 5471 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 08X87Y v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.8.2 date: 07/12/2018 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 25.7 Wh condition: 40.1/42.0 Wh (95%) model: BYD DELL FW8KR86 
           status: Discharging 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8250U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake 
           rev: A L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 28800 
           Speed: 900 MHz min/max: 400/3400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 900 2: 900 3: 900 4: 900 
           5: 900 6: 900 7: 900 8: 900 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel UHD Graphics 620 (Kabylake GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.6 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-1-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Dell 
           driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 01:00.0 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel Wireless 3165 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-3: Samsung GT-I9500 [Galaxy S4] / GT-I9250 [Galaxy Nexus] (network tethering) 
           type: USB driver: rndis_host bus ID: 1-4:11 
           IF: usb0 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter> 
           IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 408.15 GiB used: 14.25 GiB (3.5%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: Kingston model: SV300S37A120G size: 111.79 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: KSG60ZMV256G M.2 2280 256GB size: 238.47 GiB 
           ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Sony model: Storage Media size: 57.89 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 24.48 GiB used: 6.41 GiB (26.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 
           ID-2: /home size: 14.70 GiB used: 1.15 GiB (7.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 35.0 C mobo: 32.0 C sodimm: 30.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://nl.mxrepo.com/antix/stretch stretch main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cliqz.list 
           1: deb http://repository.cliqz.com/dist/debian-release stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://nl.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ stretch main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 268 Uptime: 4h 15m Memory: 7.69 GiB used: 2.11 GiB (27.4%) Init: SysVinit 
           runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.29 

[asqwerth]

Did you set Synaptic to do a

sudo apt upgrade

instead of

sudo apt dist-upgrade or full-upgrade?

[philotux]

This is what I have in Settings: Preferences: General >> System Upgrade= Smart Upgrade. Changing to "Default Upgrade" doesn't seem to help either.

synaptic.png

[asqwerth]

Why don't you open your terminal, and do a:

sudo apt update

and then

sudo apt full-upgrade


and paste the terminal text that appears?

That way we can see more info.

[philotux]

Here it is

sudo apt update

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Hit:1 http://repository.cliqz.com/dist/debian-release stable InRelease                             
Hit:2 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease                                         
Hit:3 http://nl.mxrepo.com/antix/stretch stretch InRelease                                         
Hit:4 http://nl.mxrepo.com/mx/repo stretch InRelease                                               
Hit:5 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease                
Ign:6 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:7 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian stretch Release
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
2 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable

apt list --upgradable

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Listing... Done
handbrake/mx 1:1.2.0+ds1-1~mx17+3 amd64 [upgradable from: 0.10.5+ds1-2+b3]
handbrake-cli/mx 1:1.2.0+ds1-1~mx17+3 amd64 [upgradable from: 0.10.5+ds1-2+b3]

sudo apt full-upgrade

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Looks like there is something wrong with the upgrade :(

[entropyfoe]

I also did a bunch of upgrades, but Handbrake was held back.

I assumed it was some kind of dependency issue.
No time to troubleshoot now, the old handbrake is still working, so less urgency.

Synaptic did not give any message about dependencies though...

[asqwerth]

I wonder if this is relevant (see last paragraph of Stevo's post):

viewtopic.php?p=477676#p477676


Maybe some of the other packages he mentioned are still in test repo?

[kmathern]

This might give some info on why the handbrake packages won't upgrade:

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apt-get install handbrake handbrake-cli -s

[philotux]

This might give some info on why the handbrake packages won't upgrade:

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apt-get install handbrake handbrake-cli -s

Lots of unmet dependencies:

apt-get install handbrake handbrake-cli -s

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NOTE: This is only a simulation!
      apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
      Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
      so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 handbrake : Depends: libavcodec58 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
             Depends: libavfilter7 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
             Depends: libavformat58 (>= 7:4.1) but it is not installable
             Depends: libavutil56 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
             Depends: libswresample3 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
             Depends: libswscale5 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
             Depends: libx265-160 (>= 1.8) but it is not installable
 handbrake-cli : Depends: libavcodec58 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libavfilter7 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libavformat58 (>= 7:4.1) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libavutil56 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libswresample3 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libswscale5 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libx265-160 (>= 1.8) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[kmathern]

Lots of unmet dependencies:

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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 handbrake : Depends: libavcodec58 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
             Depends: libavfilter7 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
             Depends: libavformat58 (>= 7:4.1) but it is not installable
             Depends: libavutil56 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
             Depends: libswresample3 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
             Depends: libswscale5 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
             Depends: libx265-160 (>= 1.8) but it is not installable
 handbrake-cli : Depends: libavcodec58 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libavfilter7 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libavformat58 (>= 7:4.1) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libavutil56 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libswresample3 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libswscale5 (>= 7:4.1~) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libx265-160 (>= 1.8) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Tim (timkb4cq) or Stevo might have forgotten to move those dependencies from the testrepo to main.
Maybe PM one of them and reference this thread.