installarchive() error when running update manager

[David Wood]

Ubuntu 11.10 Update manager always generates a database error on completion of an update. Problem seems to be getting worse as Synaptic Package Manager will no longer run.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: dpkg 1.16.0.3ubuntu5.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-19.33-generic 3.0.27
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-19-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 25 22:38:37 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dpkg
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (191 days ago)

[Raphaël Hertzog (hertzog)]

Hello, please post at least a log of the update session. You might find relevant files in /var/log/apt/ (history.log and term.log).

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