package update-manager 1:0.87.24 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Matthew Munson]

Binary package hint: update-manager

many packages, this one among them, failed to install because of a dependency problem with scrollkeeper, which failed to update correctly when updating to 8.04 LTS

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 14 15:34:36 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Package: update-manager 1:0.87.24
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.87.24 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux 2.6.22-14-generic i686

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for your report.

The relevant error is:
Setting up scrollkeeper (0.3.14-15ubuntu1) ...

Installing new version of config file /etc/cron.monthly/scrollkeeper ...

Rebuilding the database. This may take some time.

///usr/share/gnome/help/blackjack/el/blackjack.xml:402: parser error : Entity 'Βοήθεια' not defined

                  <para><guimenuitem>Προτιμήσεις&Βοήθεια;</gui

                                                                           ^

dpkg: error processing scrollkeeper (--configure):

 subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)

which was reported and fixed in bug 221781. Could you please provide the output of the command:
$ apt-cache policy gnome-games

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.