Crouton: Bionic install failure: The following packages have unmet dependencies (xorg, xserver-xorg-video-intel)

[mwsduelle]

name: bionic
encrypted: no
Entering /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/bionic...
crouton: version 1-20190120145639~master:5bf96711
release: bionic
architecture: amd64
targets: xfce-desktop,keyboard,touch
host: version 11633.0.0 (Official Build) dev-channel cave 
kernel: Linux localhost 3.18.0-18768-gbbede230dcf1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 22 19:35:27 PST 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
freon: yes
Unmounting /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/bionic...

Please describe your issue:

Installation of chroot fails with this:

Package 'xserver-xorg-video-all' is not installed, so not removed
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:
 xorg : Depends: xserver-xorg (>= 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1)
 xserver-xorg-video-intel : Depends: xorg-video-abi-23
                            Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.18.99.901)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Failed to complete chroot setup.

If known, describe the steps to reproduce the issue:

Attempt to install bionic with current script on CAVE.

[MetaNite64]

Can confirm that the bug exists on CELES as well.

For those who don't understand, CAVE and CELES are just the codenames for different types of Chromebooks; CAVE is the ASUS Flip C302, and CELES is the Samsung Chromebook 3.

Update
Tried installing xenial instead, with sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -t unity,extension. It gave a more encouraging result, but then, when entering, gave the same error, then said:

The chroot setup may be broken. Your chroot is not fully configured.
Removing the chroot setup script. You may want to update your chroot again.
UID 1000 not found in bionic

Update 2
Realized that I entered bionic instead of xenial, and deleted bionic. Xenial is unaffected. Will investigate artful later.

[efrankb3]

I was able to fix this from inside bionic with:
sudo apt install xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-intel

[butch7903]

what commands did you type to get bionic to install enough to get to do this?

[efrankb3]

what commands did you type to get bionic to install enough to get to do this?

My upgrade went pretty smoothly. I was just left with those xorg packages that wouldn't upgrade.

[helge000]

I was only able to setup bionic core without issues. From there you can install the xorg packages into the chroot:
sudo sh Downloads/crouton -r bionic -t core

[efrankb3]

I did a sudo do-release-upgrade from within ubuntu

[thematrixdev]

I have got the same problem.
May I know, if I install bionic with "-t core" only, how to install gnome back afterwards?

[helge000]

@y2kbug-hk - run update by adding the -u swtch and -t with all the targets as normal: sudo sh Downloads/crouton -u -t [....]

[thematrixdev]

@helge000 Thanks. It works.
But it seems installing Bionic with GNOME is too heavy for my Pixel Slate M3...
I'd better remove it and use xenial.

[rovitotv]

I have had the exact same issue on my Samsung Chromebook Pro. After reading this post and another post on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Crouton/comments/b4xovz/unable_to_create_a_ubuntu_1804_lts_chroot_with/

Gnome is to too slow on my m3 CPU so I am sticking to xfce for the moment. Keep in mind I am using the -p option to install on a sd card since I am still experimenting with the setup. Depending on your setup you might want to remove the "-p". I was able to get bionic to install with xorg and xfce support by following these exact steps:

sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -t core -r bionic -p /media/removable/TVR400GBext4/crouton

Next you have to enter-chroot and install the xserver with the following commands:

sudo sh /media/removable/TVR400GBext4/crouton/bin/enter-chroot
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-video-intel
exit

Finally execute this step to update the bionic install with xfce.

sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -u -t xfce -r bionic -p /media/removable/TVR400GBext4/crouton

I plan to try xiwi and maybe try some experiments with gnome to see if I can optimize my setup.

[dimaatkaev]

I was able to fix this from inside bionic with:
sudo apt install xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-intel
https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/issues/3995#issuecomment-460397430

please, be careful with this, I get unavailable keyboard and mouse after install and reboot

[Windexi]

Everything worked fine for me when I followed these steps (replace crouton with wherever you have crouton installed)

Install bionic with only core as target
sudo crouton -r bionic -t core

When that's done, enter bionic with
sudo enter-chroot

Install the xserver stuff the installer whines about (like @efrankb3 previously stated)
sudo apt install xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-intel

Exit the chroot
exit

You should be able to now update the targets of the chroot with whatever environment(s) you like with no issues.

[DennisLfromGA]

Offering another workaround.
I installed my crouton chroot using:

• sudo crouton -r bionic -t xorg,xiwi,cli-extra,keyboard,touch,chrome-beta,chromium,lxde-desktop

Then when it bailed and exited with the xserver-xorg error I ran this as root since the UID 1000 hadn't been set up yet:

• sudo enter-chroot -n bionic -u root

When it asks about finishing the setup script enter 'n' then run:

• sudo apt install xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-intel

When it completes just exit.

Hope this helps,
-DennisLfromGA