package update-manager None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/update-manager.list] failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Scott Fraser]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I am going to guess this has something to do with my java6 docs package. Before my attempt to upgrade to 8.04 I had already been always getting errors when doing updates via adept. Always at the very end there would be an error about a package failing to update or something. I have a feeling it was the java6 docs package.

During the 8.04 upgrade there was a point it got to where it paused and gave me an error about java6/doc package, and mentioned me maybe needing to manually install/download the package.

Either way not a big deal for me, as I will just burn an 8.04 ISO and wipe the computer and do a full install.

But in case this helps, I am logging this as an issue.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri May 30 17:41:20 2008
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Package: update-manager None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/update-manager.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/update-manager.list] failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux 2.6.22-14-generic i686

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

This is a bug in the 'sun-java6-doc' package. It will not affect the stability of your system, but it should be fixed still:

Setting up sun-java6-doc (6-06-0ubuntu1) ...
This package is an installer package, it does not actually contain the
JDK documentation. You will need to go download one of the
archives:

    jdk-6-doc.zip jdk-6-doc-ja.zip

(choose the non-update version if this is the first installation).
Please visit

    http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/

now and download. The file should be owned by root.root and be copied
to /tmp.

[Press RETURN to try again, 'no' + RETURN to abort]
This package is an installer package, it does not actually contain the
JDK documentation. You will need to go download one of the
archives:

    jdk-6-doc.zip jdk-6-doc-ja.zip

(choose the non-update version if this is the first installation).
Please visit

    http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/

now and download. The file should be owned by root.root and be copied
to /tmp.

[Press RETURN to try again, 'no' + RETURN to abort] no
Abort installation of JDK documentation
dpkg: error processing sun-java6-doc (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

So that it at least downlaods automatically and/or uses debconf.