Upgrade Tool Crashed (when upgrading to 7.10 fiesty fawn)

[starpause]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/kde-root/adept_updater8FQWXb.tmp-extract/dist-upgrade.py", line 56, in ?
    app.run()
  File "/tmp/kde-root/adept_updater8FQWXb.tmp-extract/DistUpgradeControler.py", line 1025, in run
    self.fullUpgrade()
  File "/tmp/kde-root/adept_updater8FQWXb.tmp-extract/DistUpgradeControler.py", line 1014, in fullUpgrade
    self.doPostUpgrade()
  File "/tmp/kde-root/adept_updater8FQWXb.tmp-extract/DistUpgradeControler.py", line 740, in doPostUpgrade
    res = self.cache.commit(fprogress,iprogress)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/cache.py", line 204, in commit
    if res == pm.ResultCompleted:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/cache.py", line 179, in installArchives
    installProgress.finishUpdate()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/progress.py", line 211, in run
    return os.WEXITSTATUS(res)
  File "/tmp/kde-root/adept_updater8FQWXb.tmp-extract/DistUpgradeViewKDE.py", line 227, in fork
    self.child_pid = os.fork()
OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory

i was also told to attach these files but do not see how to attach them:
/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log
/var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log

[Juan Carlos Torres (jucato)]

Marking as a duplicate of bug #107188 (actually an update-manager bug)