upgrade failed to 9.04

[MrLester]

Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 about ubuntu now says 9.04
synaptic 0.62.5
I expected it to upgrade

1st error
Could not install '/var/cache/apt/archives/freeciv-client-gtk_2.1.8-0exp1_i386.deb said it was not in a working state and subprocess new pre-removal script returned exit status (there was a little more but I didn't get it in the screen capture)

2nd error
This was in the terminal when the message came up that said: Could not install the upgrades, The upgrade is now aborted. Your system could be in an unstablestate. A recovery will run now(dpkg --configure -a).
Errors were encountered while processing: freeciv-client-gtk
traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/logging/_init_.py", line 753, in emitself.flush()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/logging/_init_.py", line 731, in flush self.stream.flush()
IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
jaunty: Fatal IO error 9 (Bad file descriptor)) on X server :0.0.

after this there was a message that said the upgrade is completed but there were errors during the upgrade process

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

Reassigning to freeciv-client-gtk.

[KarlGoetz (kgoetz)]

This looks like it could be a nasty version of 262440, could you please check it and let us know?
thanks.

[Benno (bpboersma)]

Comparable problem here. Had report created and sent:
"This report was created using checkbox-gtk 0.1-0ubuntu10 on 2009-12-16T21:46:28, on Ubuntu 9.04 (i386)."
Should I go on installing Ubuntu 9.10 or wait for solution?

[Benno (bpboersma)]

To be more complete, this is what the checkbox report said:
Packages / Version
freeciv-client-gtk 2.1.5-2
freeciv-data 2.1.8-0exp1
freeciv-server 2.1.8-0exp1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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