Update Manager failed during update

[Peter Evans]

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

Please report this bug using the command 'ubuntu-bug update-manager' in a terminal and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report.
E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.152.25.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-13.53-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Dec 29 18:28:48 2011
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-12-29 (0 days ago)

[Peter Evans (peteevans)]

Reverted to pre update state (using partimage) and attempted to reinstall all the current packages.
this produced an error highlighting a possible circular dependency "pre-depend debconf-2.0 for libpam-modules". Also noticed that can not reinstall debconf and debconf-i18n at the same time as this yields an error "E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'debconf-i18n'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)", though both can be configured separately. This produces the following errors in the apt logs
"Log started: 2011-12-30 16:38:47
(Reading database ... 303717 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace debconf-i18n 1.5.36ubuntu4 (using .../debconf-i18n_1.5.36ubuntu4_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement debconf-i18n ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_assistant_set_page_header_image: assertion `child != NULL' failed at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 27.
Setting up debconf-i18n (1.5.36ubuntu4) ...
(Reading database ... 303717 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace adept 3.0~beta7.2+nmu1ubuntu2 (using .../adept_3.0~beta7.2+nmu1ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement adept ...
Preparing to replace ssl-cert 1.0.28 (using .../ssl-cert_1.0.28_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ssl-cert ...
Preparing to replace synaptic 0.75.1ubuntu2 (using .../synaptic_0.75.1ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement synaptic ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_GB.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_assistant_set_page_header_image: assertion `child != NULL' failed at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 27.
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Setting up adept (3.0~beta7.2+nmu1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up ssl-cert (1.0.28) ...
Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_assistant_set_page_header_image: assertion `child != NULL' failed at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 27.
Setting up synaptic (0.75.1ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Log ended: 2011-12-30 16:38:56
"

Not sure whether either of these issues are related or not.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the log files from '/var/log/dist-upgrade/' to this bug report as separate attachments? Thanks in advance.

[Peter Evans (peteevans)]

Jean,
Sorry thought I had added the files only one seems to have been included. As I was forced to restore the partition (because it no longer booted) I lost the files.

Pete

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