Upgrade [jaunty -> karmic] aborted due to failed packages

[Dimitrios Lygizos]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

There were lots of packages reported as errors: "Already Installed and configured" I thought it wasn't actually errors but warnings and continued with upgrading from jaunty to karmic koala but little before the whole issue to have an end, i get a message

Could not install the upgrades

The upgrade is now aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state. A recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a).

What is all that? what do I have to do?

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: dlyz 3446 F.... pulseaudio
                      dlyz 3602 F.... mixer_applet2
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf9ff8000 irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1988B'
   Components : 'HDA:11d4198b,1043829b,00100300'
   Controls : 48
   Simple ctrls : 26
Date: Wed May 26 19:20:08 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: package pulseaudio is already installed and configured
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-18.60-generic
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Title: package pulseaudio 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20.3 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-18-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2225): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2225): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-panel:2293): libglade-WARNING **: Unexpected element <requires-version> inside <glade-interface>.
 (gnome-panel:2293): Bonobo-WARNING **: Serious exception on node_set '$Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0'' of '<Root>
 (gnome-panel:2293): Gtk-WARNING **: A floating object was finalized. This means that someone

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Re-assigning to update-manager, as without more informatino, its not known whether this problem is to do with the failed upgrade of an audio package, and I don't know where update-manager stores its logs...

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

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 541595, 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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.