Distribution upgrade (to hardy): Package "update-manager" failed to install or upgrade

[Jukka Partanen]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Trying to upgrade from gutsy to hardy using the update manager.
Failing phase: Installing the upgrades. Passed phases:

Preparing to upgrade
Setting new software channels
Getting new packages

From the terminal:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "logging/__init__.py", line 753, in emit
    self.flush()
  File "logging/__init__.py", line 731, in flush
    self.stream.flush()
IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "logging/__init__.py", line 753, in emit
    self.flush()
  File "logging/__init__.py", line 731, in flush
    self.stream.flush()
IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "logging/__init__.py", line 753, in emit
    self.flush()
  File "logging/__init__.py", line 731, in flush
    self.stream.flush()
IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor

The same thing happens when I try the distribution upgrade again.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 27 18:28:12 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Couldn't configure pre-depend audacious-plugins for audacious-plugins-extra, probably a dependency cycle.

NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: update-manager 1:0.81.2
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.81.2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Couldn't configure pre-depend audacious-plugins for audacious-plugins-extra, probably a dependency cycle.
Uname: Linux zak 2.6.22.19-zak #2 PREEMPT Wed Apr 2 02:47:21 EEST 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Jukka Partanen (jukka-partanen)]

Another Ubuntu 7.10 upgrade failed the same way.
Partial upgrade fails, too.

Eventually found a workaround:

0. Distribution upgrade fails as described above.
1. Manually use synaptic to upgrade the update-manager package
    (and its dependencies).
2. Then use update manager to finish the distribution upgrade.

[Jukka Partanen (jukka-partanen)]

Uh, actually I had to do something more in step 1:

upgraded dpkg, libgnomecanvas2
upgraded ubuntu-desktop

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Please attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade to this bugreport. If two upgrades failed, please attach the logs of both as they may have failed in a different way.

Thanks Michael

[Jan Kaláb (pitel)]

I have the same crash and error message right now. But for some reason, when the installation should start, MusicBrainz Picard reported it's own crash. It's a little mystery for me, I had all programs closed when performing upgrade.