Comment 6 for bug 85979

I too see this bug. There were about 390 packages to upgrade today, and they all downloaded. When it started up, it gave me the "nice" popup.

Below is a version of what was displayed in the main window - that is, not the popup. (Actually it was from a later crash.)

The first package to fail was bash. I went to a command line and did

sudo apt-get update

and it told me to do a

sudo apt-get --configure -a

which I dutifully did.

Then I re-ran adept-updater and it got further, but when it reached x11-common it had similar problems. This I fixed again with the apt-get --configure -a , but adept-updater still wouldn't work. So this time I just finished the upgrade on the command line

sudo apt-get upgrade

and it went fine. Afterwards, there was no further packages shown by adept-updater. I had noticed that adept was one of the packages that had been reinstalled, and I used adept to install firefox. It worked, but I still saw the "DESTROY created..." message below.

Extracting templates from packages: 100%
DESTROY created new reference to dead object ' Qt::VBoxLayout', <> line 342 during global destruction.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDrive
r/Stack.pm line 104, <GEN19> line 3.
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDrive
r/Stack.pm line 104, <GEN39> line 4.
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDrive
r/Stack.pm line 104, <GEN39> line 9.
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDrive
r/Stack.pm line 104, <GEN39> line 17.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
(Reading database ... 75336 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace debianutils 2.17.4 (using .../debianutils_2.17.4build1_i386
.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement debianutils ...
Setting up debianutils (2.17.4build1) ...

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