at update from 11.10 to 12.04, there is an error "Could not install 'update-notifier-common'"

[Bouke Bunnik]

During the Distribution Upgrade process from 11.10 I got this error message. Since the upgrade is still in progress, I don't yet know what this effectively means. Will update information after install is done.

[Bouke Bunnik (bosyber)]

From /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log:
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2012-05-22 11:17:24,740 DEBUG got a conffile-prompt from dpkg for file: '/etc/up
date-manager/release-upgrades'
2012-05-22 11:33:04,843 WARNING no activity on terminal for 240 seconds (Configuring update-manager-core)
2012-05-22 11:33:49,832 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: 'update-notifier-common': 'subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1'
2012-05-22 11:33:49,852 DEBUG running apport_pkgfailure() update-notifier-common: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
2012-05-22 11:33:50,440 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: 'update-notifier-common': 'subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1'
2012-05-22 11:36:06,067 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: 'update-notifier': 'dependency problems - leaving unconfigured'
2012-05-22 11:36:06,068 DEBUG running apport_pkgfailure() update-notifier: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
2012-05-22 11:36:06,068 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: 'update-notifier': 'dependency problems - leaving unconfigured'
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Could this be triggered by me being away from the computer for long enough to make the dialog for /etc/update-manager/ updating (I had it set to "Prompt=normal") give a timeout? I did get the dialog though, and the file was updated.

[Bouke Bunnik (bosyber)]

Hm, so no, that isn't likely it, the timeout happened with some others too. This though (/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-term.log):
Setting up update-notifier-common (0.119ubuntu8.2) ...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefont
s/andale32.exe
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader", line 234, in process_
download_requests
    dest_file = urllib.urlretrieve(files[i])[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 93, in urlretrieve
    return _urlopener.retrieve(url, filename, reporthook, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 239, in retrieve
    fp = self.open(url, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 207, in open
    return getattr(self, name)(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 344, in open_http
    h.endheaders(data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 954, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 814, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 776, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 757, in connect
    self.timeout, self.source_address)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 553, in create_connection
    for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
IOError: [Errno socket error] [Errno -2] Name or service not known
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader", line 296, in <module>
    process_download_requests()
  File "/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader", line 292, in process_download_requests
    trigger_update_notifier(our_failures)
  File "/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader", line 150, in trigger_update_notifier
    {'packages' : ", ".join(packages)}))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/string.py", line 172, in substitute
    return self.pattern.sub(convert, self.template)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/string.py", line 162, in convert
    val = mapping[named]
KeyError: 'paquetes'
dpkg: error processing update-notifier-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of update-notifier:
 update-notifier depends on update-notifier-common (= 0.119ubuntu8.2); however:
  Package update-notifier-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing update-notifier (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ttf-mscorefonts-installer:
 ttf-mscorefonts-installer depends on update-notifier-common (>= 0.119ubuntu2); however:
  Package update-notifier-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ttf-mscorefonts-installer (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
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Seems to be more likely the problem.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1003100, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.
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