Ubuntu
belocs-locales-bin package

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)

Bug #256653 reported by Shashi Gupta on 2008-08-10

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #249340: Gutsy->Hardy upgrade hangs in localedef. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	belocs-locales-bin (Ubuntu)	Triaged	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

Trying to upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04

Install got hung while doing "Generating locales..." while trying to install language-pack-en base.

The process tree looked like this:

/usr/sbin/locale-gen
localedef --no-archive --magic=20051014 -i en_AU
gzip

localdef process was taking a lot of CPU but seemed hung. I couldn't kill the process even with signal -9
gzip process was a zombie process

I finally had to kill the locale-gen script to get the install to continue. But I got the same issue further downstream as the update manager was trying to "generate locales" again

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 10 10:45:26 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 2.6.22-15-generic i686

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Shashi Gupta (shashiguptanj) wrote on 2008-08-10:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (13.0 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (51.0 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (9.0 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainprereqlog.gz Edit (501 bytes, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz Edit (51.8 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier) wrote on 2008-08-10:

From TermLog:

Errors were encountered while processing:
locales
language-pack-en-base
language-pack-en
language-pack-gnome-en-base
language-pack-gnome-en
ubuntu-minimal
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
IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2008-08-11:

Here is the first error, this looks like a localegen problem:

Setting up locales (2.7.9-4) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/belocs/iso-639.def ...
Generating locales...
en_AU.UTF-8...
en_AU.UTF-8... Quit
dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 131