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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477171322777_7265">I had a similar
problem to sgreene59 of unmet dependencies when after upgrading I
attempted to install mythtv-frontend. By entering them one by one
with the exception of transcode they installed just fine.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477171322777_7268">Now when I attempt
to install mythv-frontend I receive this message:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477171322777_7269">The following
packages have unmet dependencies:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477171322777_7270"> mythtv-frontend :
Depends: transcode but it is not installable</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477171322777_7271">E: Unable to correct
problems, you have held broken packages.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477171322777_7274">I did a bit of
digging into Ubuntu and I discovered the following regarding
transcode in yakkety:</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477171322777_7277">There is no current
release of this source package in The Yakkety Yak. You can still
report bugs, make translations, and so on, but they might not be used
until the package is published. 
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477171322777_7280">I’m stymied at
this point and I welcome advice.</div>

 <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, October 21, 2016 7:42 PM, Steve Greene <sgreene59@verizon.net> wrote:<br></font></div>  <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv9967896112"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Strange behavior: I copied the held back items from the "sudo apt upgrade" line and pasted them into "sudo apt install".<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>They installed without complaint.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>Steve<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv9967896112yqt8225478109" id="yiv9967896112yqt16284"><div class="yiv9967896112gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv9967896112gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Steve Greene <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:sgreene59@verizon.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:sgreene59@verizon.net">sgreene59@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv9967896112gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div>I haven't pinned anything. It has the fixes version from 10/7, the version from 10/13 is held back. I see some evidence that there is a package dependency for ntp that is broken.<span class="yiv9967896112HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></font></span></div><span class="yiv9967896112HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Steve <br clear="none"></font></span></div><div class="yiv9967896112HOEnZb"><div class="yiv9967896112h5"><div class="yiv9967896112gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv9967896112gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Thomas Mashos <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:thomas@mashos.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:thomas@mashos.com">thomas@mashos.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv9967896112gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">Did you pin any packages? This was fixed awhile ago. </div><div class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886HOEnZb"><div class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886h5">
<br clear="none"><div class="yiv9967896112gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 5:06 PM Steve Greene <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:sgreene59@verizon.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:sgreene59@verizon.net">sgreene59@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv9967896112gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" dir="ltr">8 days later and I'm still getting the following message from apt:<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none"><br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv9967896112gmail_quote yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;">The following packages have been kept back:<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none">  init init-system-helpers libmyth-0.28-0 libmyth-python linux-firmware<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none">  mytharchive mythbrowser mythmusic mythnetvision mythnews mythtv-backend<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none">  mythtv-backend-master mythtv-common mythtv-database mythtv-doc<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none">  mythtv-frontend mythtv-transcode-utils mythweather mythweb php-mythtv<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none"></blockquote><div class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg"><br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none"></div><div class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg">This is only on the box running my primary backend (Mint 18, Cinnamon). None of my other boxes have this issue. What's going on?<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none"> <br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none"></div></div><div class="yiv9967896112gmail_extra yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg"><br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none"><div class="yiv9967896112gmail_quote yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg">On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Thomas Mashos <span class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" ymailto="mailto:thomas@mashos.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:thomas@mashos.com">thomas@mashos.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv9967896112gmail_quote yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" dir="ltr">Jeff,</div>
<div class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" dir="ltr">That is a completely different issue than what this thread is about.</div><div class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877m_51488900581925298HOEnZb yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg"><div class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877m_51488900581925298h5 yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg">
<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none"><div class="yiv9967896112gmail_quote yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg"><div class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 13, 2016, 9:57 AM Jeffrey Ratcliffe <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" ymailto="mailto:jeffrey.ratcliffe@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jeffrey.ratcliffe@gmail.com">jeffrey.ratcliffe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv9967896112gmail_quote yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I'm still getting:<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877m_51488900581925298m_-68921966536975134gmail_msg yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none">
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initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877m_51488900581925298m_-68921966536975134gmail_msg yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none">
/com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877m_51488900581925298m_-68921966536975134gmail_msg yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none">
insserv: warning: script 'mythtv-backend' missing LSB tags and overrides<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877m_51488900581925298m_-68921966536975134gmail_msg yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none">
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877m_51488900581925298m_-68921966536975134gmail_msg yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none">
script `mythtv-backend'<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877m_51488900581925298m_-68921966536975134gmail_msg yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none">
insserv: Default-Stop  undefined, assuming empty stop  runlevel(s) for<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877m_51488900581925298m_-68921966536975134gmail_msg yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none">
script `mythtv-backend'<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877m_51488900581925298m_-68921966536975134gmail_msg yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none">
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when upgrading.<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877m_51488900581925298m_-68921966536975134gmail_msg yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none">
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It is no wonder that it can't find Upstart, when the Xenial is using systemd.<br class="yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877m_51488900581925298m_-68921966536975134gmail_msg yiv9967896112m_3728440113248855886m_-3912617662307206877gmail_msg" clear="none">
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