package ca-certificates 20141019ubuntu0.10.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: cannot access archive: No such file or directory

[David Mawdsley]

From "uname -a":

Linux madmod-laptop 2.6.32-60-generic #122-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 7 20:16:42 UTC 2014 i686 GNU/Linux

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop on this computer. The update manager presented a text page with the certificates change log.
The only option for the page was "Close" which I used. (On my 14.04 Desktop, the change log appears in the command screen and I usually just type q to bypass it so that the updates can continue.)

After I clicked on the Close button, the screen didn't close but went gray as if it was busy or low on memory. Meanwhile, on the command screen, the update hung with messages such as apt-changelog ... with some options. But this just hung. I don't think that this utility apt-changelog is in my computer as there is no man page for it. (probably not in the 10.04 Ubuntu)

Finally I used the force quit to kill the text page and the command screen. The update manager continued to a normal stop without completing the tasks. I then rebooted the computer and gave the command sudo apt-get autoremove to clear whatever junk had piled up. It was clean.

Another attempt at using the update manager failed the same way. I then rebooted, reissued autoremove and got the other updates--bypassing the certificate update. That set of updates installed normally and the update manager indicated that I still had certificates to go. At this point I don't remember what happened except that the certificates update failed and hung up the same way. So I aborted and used autoremove again.

Otherwise the 10.04 computer is behaving normally.

Hope that's useful enough info.

--Dave

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: ca-certificates 20141019ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-60.122-generic 2.6.32.61+drm33.26
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-60-generic i686
AptOrdering:
 ca-certificates: Install
 ca-certificates: Configure
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Feb 24 07:24:51 2015
ErrorMessage: cannot access archive: No such file or directory
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ca-certificates
Title: package ca-certificates 20141019ubuntu0.10.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: cannot access archive: No such file or directory

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[David Mawdsley (dm-madmod)]

Hi Marc,

Not to split hairs on this, but I checked the security option because
this patch dealt with certificates which do have security implications
to a limited extent. I'm always cautious when doing business with
companies whose certs are wrong. (no use of credit cards, nor transfer
of personal info)

Anyway, thanks for the update.

~Dave

On 02/27/2015 08:10 AM, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
> to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security
> issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
> cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy.
> Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.
>
> ** Information type changed from Private Security to Public
>

--
David Mawdsley - A+, Network+ and Security+ Certified Service Technician
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