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upgrade to 8 fails in x.org with script exit code 1

Bug #239691 reported by Bob Riegelmann on 2008-06-13

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #118605: [fglrx] freezes upon Logout or Switch user [patch]. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xorg (Ubuntu)	Triaged	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

SSIA - Update manager struggled on for a while then failed on dependency problems. This upgrade was done on a fully updated 7. system.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jun 13 01:40:31 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Package: update-manager 1:0.87.27
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.87.27 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic i686

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Bob Riegelmann (bobr-casco) wrote on 2008-06-13:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (6.3 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (50.5 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (8.8 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz Edit (51.8 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2008-06-24:

Here is what causes the error:

Setting up xorg-driver-fglrx (1:7.1.0-8-3+2.6.24.13-18.41) ...
* Starting atieventsd
...done.
Setting up xserver-xorg (1:7.3+10ubuntu10) ...
No protocol specified
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 60.
dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xorg:
xorg depends on xserver-xorg; however:
Package xserver-xorg is not configured yet.

I reassign to xserver-xorg