[Hardy] update-manager fails after upgrade from 6.06 LTS

[pierre van grambezen]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Looks similar to #225184.
The update to 8.04 worked well, all the new packages were installed and configured,
but the update manager crashed near the end, just before the cleaning step.
I will now look to clean up through the Synaptic package manager, or manually if needed.

Anyway, thanks for the great job.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jul 6 12:05:16 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /tmp/tmpMPC_lf/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /tmp/tmpMPC_lf/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /tmp/tmpMPC_lf/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /tmp/tmpMPC_lf/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Package: update-manager 1:0.87.27
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.87.27 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /tmp/tmpMPC_lf/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /tmp/tmpMPC_lf/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /tmp/tmpMPC_lf/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /tmp/tmpMPC_lf/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Ralph Janke (txwikinger)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this problem and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Could you please include the crash report.

Thanks

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Here is the error (from the log):

...
Preparing to replace cupsys 1.2.2-0ubuntu0.6.06.9 (using .../cupsys_1.3.7-1ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
3a0.16.13-1ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_BE:en",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 * Stopping Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
 * Stopping Common Unix Printing System: cupsd [ OK ]
chown: cannot access `/var/log/cups': No such file or directory
.0.17-2ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/cupsys_1.3.7-1ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 54.
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 54.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 60.
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 60.
 * Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
 * Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd touch: cannot touch `/var/log/cups/access_log': No such file or directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript cupsys, action "start" failed.
invoke-rc.d: release upgrade in progress, error is not fatal
...

[pierre van grambezen (pierre-van-grambezen)]

The upgrade was well executed.
I noticed indeed a lot of warnings related to the locales, but with no negative results.
Cupsys was left in an "unstable" state according to the package manager, but it turns out that it was able to restore itself; printing works.
The only point is that the upgrade manager suddenly left, without a closing message (as I expected), but besides that, everything is now working fine.
So, this is probably not a bug, and if it is, it is not a serious one.
Thanks for looking at it, and for all the work that went into this Ubuntu release.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Hardy has reached end of life, and this package is not present in later releases. Closing all related bugs.