update-manager crashed on first start-up on dist-upgrade 8.04 (kde 3.5.x latest) to 8.10

[SamioSeven]

Binary package hint: update-manager

First upgrade from kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 and first boot on system.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Package: update-manager None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/update-manager.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/update-manager.list] failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Rafik Elouerchefani (rafik)]

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 295483, 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.

[arno_b (arno.b)]

@Rafik > why do you think it is a duplicate?

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

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from the log file the error is:
Rimuovo nvidia-glx-new ...

dpkg-divert: il cambio del nome comporta la sovrascrittura di `/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2' con

  un file diverso `/usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa', che non è consentito

dpkg: errore processando nvidia-glx-new (--remove):

 il sottoprocesso post-removal script ha restituito un codice di errore 2
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This is a dup of bug 36625

Thanks for your time.