Upgrade Fails to install new image

[Miraz]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Upgrade to Gutsy fails - disk layout uses LVM

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Dec 13 23:38:11 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /tmp/tmpbJgfDR/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

NonfreeKernelModules: vmnet vmmon
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/tmpbJgfDR/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Uname: Linux jester 2.6.20.3-ubuntu1-jester #1 SMP Wed May 30 20:11:34 EST 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[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.

[Miraz (geoff-northcott)]

I suspect this is the critical piece -

# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.85eubuntu20) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)

Setting up linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-14-generic (2.6.22-14.37) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
update-initramfs: lilo run failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic:

Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
    Name change: '/dev/dm-0' -> '/dev/DataVolGroup/Data1'
Warning: Name change: '/dev/dm-1' -> '/dev/RootVolGroup/swap'
Warning: Name change: '/dev/dm-2' -> '/dev/RootVolGroup/root'
Fatal: Empty map section
dpkg: error processing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-14-generic (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-generic:
 linux-image-generic depends on linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-14-generic; however:
  Package linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-14-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-generic (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
update-initramfs: lilo run failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic:

Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
    Name change: '/dev/dm-0' -> '/dev/DataVolGroup/Data1'
Warning: Name change: '/dev/dm-1' -> '/dev/RootVolGroup/swap'
Warning: Name change: '/dev/dm-2' -> '/dev/RootVolGroup/root'
Fatal: Empty map section
dpkg: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

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 88219, 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.