<type 'exceptions.SystemError'>: E:I wasn't able to locate a file for the base-files package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.

[boniek]

Crashed doing today's update of the system.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: aptdaemon 0.43+bzr663-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-7.9-generic-pae 3.0.0
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic-pae i686
Annotation: Upgrading the system failed
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 4 23:20:44 2011
DesktopFile: /usr/share/aptdaemon/aptdaemon.desktop
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/aptd
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: aptdaemon
Title: <type 'exceptions.SystemError'>: E:I wasn't able to locate a file for the base-files package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
TransactionDepends: [[], [], [], [], [], [], []]
TransactionErrorCode: error-unknown
TransactionKwargs: {'safe_mode': dbus.Boolean(True)}
TransactionLocale:

TransactionOutput:

TransactionPackages: [[], [], [], [], [], []]
TransactionRole: role-upgrade-system
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #820317, so 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.