12.04 keeps wanting to upgrade to 12.10?

[LuisGMarine]

Arpanaut, Here's the output from sudo apt-get dist upgrade:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libgwibber-gtk2 libgwibber2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  account-plugin-facebook account-plugin-twitter gir1.2-accounts-1.0
  gir1.2-signon-1.0 libaccount-plugin-1.0-0 libaccounts-glib0 libaccounts-qt1
  libgwibber-gtk3 libgwibber3 libqjson0 libsignon-extension1 libsignon-glib1
  libsignon-plugins-common1 libsignon-qt1 libunity-webapps0
  linux-headers-3.2.0-34 linux-headers-3.2.0-34-generic
  linux-image-3.2.0-34-generic signon-keyring-extension signon-plugin-oauth2
  signon-ui signond skype-bin:i386 unity-webapps-service
The following packages will be upgraded:
  bamfdaemon gwibber gwibber-service gwibber-service-facebook
  gwibber-service-twitter indicator-appmenu libbamf0 libbamf3-0 linux-generic
  linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic shotwell skype:i386
13 upgraded, 24 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 86.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 223 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

As you said, I aborted because it wanted to remove packages.

LuisGMarine, I tried those commands, but I still got that partial upgrade message...

I think you are okay to hit [Y], considering it only wants to remove 2 non system essential package's...

NOTE: Pressing [Y] will upgrade the kernel, which should be normal considering the command that you are running.

[arpanaut]

Okay, since the removed packages will be replaced by their newer version,
libgwibber-gtk3 libgwibber3, then it will be okay to let the operation complete.

That would seem to be the roadblock with update-manager.
The dist-upgrade command is sometimes needed to get upgrades to new versions of packages. It is strange, as update manager should take this into account with the version changes and go through normally. Might have been a matter of timing of when the updates reached the repositories, don't know.

Hopefully redoing the dist-upgrade command and allowing it to execute will solve the issue. Post back if not.

[TheGuyWithTheFace]

It worked! Thank you all for your quick responses and bright ideas.

[johnycsf]

try
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

then
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install -f