package update-manager 1:0.87.14 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[TimMadden]

Binary package hint: update-manager

upgrading from gutsy to hardy 8.04 beta 4 on older intel 32 based pc. dell dimension 4100. downloaded all the packages, complete install processing and was to begin clean up phase when upgrade stopped. not sure what info you need. last line of the terminal in the update manager says:

"IOError: {Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
hardy: Fatal IO error 9 (Bad file descriptor) on X server :0.0."

previously during the upgrade, the update manager reported errors related to the upgrade of Alien Arena. not sure if that had anything to do with it.

if there are other files needed, let me know. I can run the upgrade again if you want. this is a back up PC so I was just testing it out.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 29 19:55:56 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Package: update-manager 1:0.87.14
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.87.14 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux 2.6.22-14-generic i686

[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.

[TimMadden (timmadden)]

i had to make a copy of this file to my home directory and change the permissions to my user to post it...

[TimMadden (timmadden)]

I rebooted this machine after it gave me the error on the distribution upgrade. I cleaned the packages up manually with aptitude. Seems normal now. Not sure what the error was about...

Let me know if you need more info.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

The cause of the failure was:
=====
Unpacking replacement alien-arena-data ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/alien-arena-data_6.10-1_all.deb (--unpack):
 failed in buffer_write(fd) (11, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/share/games/alien-arena/data1/textures/metal/wall1.wal': No space left on device
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
=====

The cleaning of packages has freed some space, and then you could continue the update. I'm closing this report because it is not a bug in Ubuntu.

Don't hesitate to submit any new bug.