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update-manager package

Upgrade Ubuntu Studio 7.10 to 8.04 froze during language-pack install

Bug #257504 reported by Frank Carvalho on 2008-08-13

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

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

Architecture is AMD_64. Old kernel is:
2.6.22-15-rt
The process that runs forever is:
/bin/sh -e /usr/share/locales/install-language-pack en
I eventually had to kill this process to complete install.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Aug 12 18:52:24 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.87.30
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.87.30 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-rt x86_64

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Frank Carvalho (dko4342) wrote on 2008-08-13:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (6.2 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (51.6 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (8.9 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz Edit (52.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2008-08-13:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 249340, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.