dist-upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 errors

[EliotBlennerhassett]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Updating from 8.04 to 10.04, a dialog box was shown, that instructed to create a bug report with contents of /var/log/dist-upgrade.

So here it is.

After this error, update aborted. Rerunning allowed it to mostly complete, except for 'flashplugin-nonfree' being in "a very bad state" (a number of bugs already reported about this). Fixed by manually removing package following instructions found on the web.

Now, apport is trying to report many many packages as "failed to install or upgrade, even though they appear to be installed...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.134.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 8 22:55:38 2010
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report

the relevant error is
---
Unpacking replacement libpam0g ...
Setting up libpam0g (1.1.1-2ubuntu2) ...
Checking for services that may need to be restarted...Checking init scripts...
debconf: Unable to load Debconf::Element::Gnome::String. Failed because: Can't locate I18N/Langinfo.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Gnome.pm line 7, <GEN1> line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Gnome.pm line 7, <GEN1> line 4.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 23) line 3, <GEN1> line 4.
 ...propagated at /usr/share/perl/5.8/base.pm line 84, <GEN1> line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Gnome/String.pm line 10, <GEN1> line 4.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 22) line 2, <GEN1> line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 22) line 2, <GEN1> line 4.
.
Can't locate object method "new" via package "Debconf::Element::Gnome::String" at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd.pm line 68, <GEN1> line 4.
dpkg: error processing libpam0g (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

Affecting to debconf

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more maintained