package update-manager 1:0.81.3 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Couldn't configure pre-depend audacious-plugins for audacious-plugins-extra, probably a dependency cycle.

[Mike Burrows]

Binary package hint: update-manager

This looks similar to my issue, I'll try uninstalling audacious and trying again.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 5 22:33:13 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Couldn't configure pre-depend audacious-plugins for audacious-plugins-extra, probably a dependency cycle.

Package: update-manager 1:0.81.3
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.81.3 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Couldn't configure pre-depend audacious-plugins for audacious-plugins-extra, probably a dependency cycle.
Uname: Linux black 2.6.22-15-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Fri Jul 11 21:24:30 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thanks.

This bug in audacious was fixed recently by removing the pre-depends. The updated package is in hardy-updates, but update-manager doesn't appear to be looking in hardy-updates for universe packages here, which is why it still fails for you. Would you mind attaching your /etc/apt/sources.list please?

[Mike Burrows (mykeburrows)]

Here's the file you requested. It seems to be looking at hardy rather than hardy-updates for universe. I'll try manually editting it and trying again.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thanks, yes it seems that you haven't got hardy-updates for universe packages enabled. I've corrected your sources.list and re-attached it. You should be able to upgrade successfully now.

[Mike Burrows (mykeburrows)]

Thanks a lot Chris. This got me further through the process. I am now trying to deal with Bug #249340