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)

[dallas]

Binary package hint: update-manager

upgrading to 8.04 lts
hung at installing the upgrades

errors in
gcalctool
ubuntu-desktop
vinagre

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 31 07:12:06 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

NonfreeKernelModules: 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 2.6.22-14-generic i686

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This is a bug in the postinst of gcalctool:

2008-08-30 22:03:24,646 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: 'gcalctool': 'subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 134

Setting up gcalctool (5.22.3-0ubuntu0.1) ...
b7f15000-b7f16000 r--p 00000000 03:01 18465943 /usr/lib/locale/en_CA.utf8/LC_NAME
b7f16000-b7f17000 r--p 00000000 03:01 18465937 /usr/lib/locale/en_CA.utf8/LC_ADDRESS
b7f17000-b7f18000 r--p 00000000 03:01 18465946 /usr/lib/locale/en_CA.utf8/LC_TELEPHONE
b7f18000-b7f19000 r--p 00000000 03:01 18465941 /usr/lib/locale/en_CA.utf8/LC_MEASUREMENT
b7f19000-b7f20000 r--s 00000000 03:01 18434074 /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache
b7f20000-b7f21000 r--p 00000000 03:01 18465940 /usr/lib/locale/en_CA.utf8/LC_IDENTIFICATION
b7f21000-b7f23000 rw-p b7f21000 00:00 0
b7f23000-b7f3d000 r-xp 00000000 03:01 11485233 /lib/ld-2.7.so
b7f3d000-b7f3f000 rw-p 00019000 03:01 11485233 /lib/ld-2.7.so
bfece000-bfee4000 rw-p bfece000 00:00 0 [stack]
dpkg: error processing gcalctool (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 134

It might also be a memory corruption, could you please run the memtester and see if that finds issues?

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

The cause of the failure is
=====
Setting up gcalctool (5.22.3-0ubuntu0.1) ...

*** glibc detected *** scrollkeeper-update: corrupted double-linked list: 0x0810df70 ***

======= Backtrace: =========

/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7cd4149]

/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7cd588e]

/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0xb7cd94f0]

/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2(xmlFreeDoc+0x17a)[0xb7e06d0a]

/usr/lib/libscrollkeeper.so.0(install+0xbad)[0xb7dbdd1d]

scrollkeeper-update[0x8049e5f]

/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0)[0xb7c80450]

scrollkeeper-update[0x8048f91]
=====

This is a known bug in scrollkeeper and I'm marking this report as duplicate of bug 218049.

Don't hesitate to submit any new bug.