hal-info failed to upgrade: dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:221: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed

[Rajinder Sandhu, Bangalore]

Binary package hint: update-manager

This happened when i wanted to fix the broken packages with dpkg --configure -a
the report was created by appart and being forwarded to you
Thanks

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly

NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
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 exited unexpectedly
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Here is what is causing the error
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Log started: 2008-12-05 21:18:15
dpkg: error processing hal-info (--configure):

 package hal-info is not ready for configuration

 cannot configure (current status `triggers-awaited')

dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:221: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed.

Log ended: 2008-12-05 21:18:16

Log started: 2008-12-06 22:07:51
dpkg: error processing hal-info (--configure):

 package hal-info is not ready for configuration

 cannot configure (current status `triggers-awaited')

Log ended: 2008-12-06 22:07:51
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This follow the previous upgrade failure on 2008-12-04 at 06:44:24 where this package has been left in a broken state.

This has also been reported in bug 290956 and I'm marking it as duplicate.

Thanks for your help to make Ubuntu better.