package update-manager 1:0.93.34 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Jason R. Coombs]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I was following the instructions here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

At some point in the process, I got an error about Evolution event notifier (something about Corba unable to connect?).

Later, I got an error that python-setuptools was unable to install (similar to #236798).

I think I'm at the end of "Installing Upgrades" and the upgrade manager has prompted me to create this bug. After I clicked "Report Problem", it prompts me to do the same for the python-setuptools package.

I think I was able to recover from the python-setuptools problem, but I'm not sure if the rest of the upgrades completed successfully. I'm going to submit this bug and return here after confirming that the upgrade completed.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Package: update-manager 1:0.93.34
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.93.34 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic x86_64

[Jason R. Coombs (jaraco)]

I was able to reboot the system, and the update manager reports that my system is up to date... but when I select System | About Ubuntu, the text says, "Thank you for your interest in Ubuntu - the - released in ."

Contrary to the error message, it appears as if update-manager did in fact install/upgrade successfully:

$ sudo dpkg -s update-manager
Package: update-manager
Status: install ok installed
...
Version: 1:0.93.34
...

If the About text is not updated with the version, what else might have been missed in the upgrade?

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

The python-setuptools bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 291262, 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.

The documentation is provided by the package ubuntu-docs and the viewer is yelp. Check that you've installed both packages.

Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.