Upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10 crashes

[Pistacik]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 crashes at about 65%. I

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 23 18:52:20 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /tmp/tmpZD4hZ-/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

NonfreeKernelModules: vmnet vmmon nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.81
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.81 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /tmp/tmpZD4hZ-/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Sun Sep 23 19:50:39 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Thank you for reporting this bug. However, this bug is already reported, and will be marked as duplicate.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the log files from '/var/log/dist-upgrade/' to this bugreport as attachments to your bug report? Thanks in advance.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

The cause of the failure was:
====
Setting up lirc (0.8.2-0ubuntu8) ...
Configuration file `/etc/lirc/hardware.conf'
 ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
 ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
   What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
    Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
    N or O : keep your currently-installed version
      D : show the differences between the versions
      Z : background this process to examine the situation
 The default action is to keep your current version.
*** hardware.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ?
*** hardware.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? y
Installing new version of config file /etc/lirc/hardware.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/lirc ...
top ...
 * Reloading kernel event manager...
   ...done.
dpkg: error processing lirc (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
=====

affecting to lirc

You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

I think this was because back then update manager couldn't handle these conf file changes. 7.10 is EOL though anyway. if this bug returns, open up a new one.