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gcl package

package update-manager 1:0.87.30 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Bug #302286 reported by Sam Williams on 2008-11-26

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #227878: gcl failed to upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04.. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gcl (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

I encountered the problem as I was updating my machine from 7.10 to 8.04. The update aborted in mid stream and I was told that the system might be unusable. This is an unacceptable situation!

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 25 23:14:33 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.87.30
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.87.30 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux 2.6.22-15-generic i686

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Sam Williams (sam-williams) wrote on 2008-11-26:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (18.1 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (71.0 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (11.3 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainprereqlog.gz Edit (505 bytes, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz Edit (69.5 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote on 2008-11-26:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 227878, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.