upgrade ubuntu 7 to 8 bugs

[fatiha]

Hello
i want upgrade mu ubuntu 7 to ubuntu 8 (do-release-upgrade), but:" i have at list Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport.
installArchives() failed"

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Here is what caused the error:

2008-07-13 12:36:44,282 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: 'scrollkeeper': 'sous-processus post-installation script tué par le signal (Interrompre)

Did you hit "ctrl-c" during the upgrade process?

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[alfredo (alacis)]

Using the 8.04 alternate ISO to upgrade from 7.10: 'mount' shows:
 /home/20gb/software/linux_distros_various/ubuntu-8.04.1-alternate-i386.iso on /media/cdrom0 type iso9660 (rw,loop=/dev/loop0)
.... I got *lots* and *lots* of errors: now the "Final Error" says it all:
 =
 Could not install the upgrades
The upgrade will abort now. Your system may be in an unusable state. A recovery was run (dpkg --configure -a).
Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport.
 installArchives() failed
 =
That's right, my system is *UNUSABLE* -- MANY, MANY applications are broken: A quick survey includes:
 Firefox (also Epiphany & Galeon, but not Konqueror which I'm using to log this)
 Thunderbird
 OpenOffice
 Amaya
 Eclipse
 Monodoc

Log files as suggested are at:
http://alfredo4570.customer.netspace.net.au/var/fucked/apt-term.log
http://alfredo4570.customer.netspace.net.au/var/fucked/apt.log
http://alfredo4570.customer.netspace.net.au/var/fucked/main.log
http://alfredo4570.customer.netspace.net.au/var/fucked/main_update_self.log
http://alfredo4570.customer.netspace.net.au/var/fucked/term.log

[alfredo (alacis)]

I also experienced many errors, leaving many parts of my system & applications UNUSABLE.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

@alfredo, you're facing a different issue than the original report. So please don't reopen a closed report if you're not certain that this is the same problem.

Now regarding your report, the cause of the failure is
====
Preparing to replace libc6 2.6.1-1ubuntu10 (using .../libc6_2.7-10ubuntu4_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
Replaced by files in installed package initscripts ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-10ubuntu4_i386.deb (--unpack):
 unable to create `./usr/share/man/man5/gai.conf.5.gz': No such file or directory
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-10ubuntu4_i386.deb
=====

Because everything relies on libc this means that your system is totally broken. You can try to recover the system from a live cd .

Thank you.