Comment 4 for bug 69228

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Rob Byrd (byrdr-ikm) wrote : Re: installArchives() failed - Feisty 7.04Apha

Installed 7.04 and updated 488 packages yesterday fine. Today the 25 updates gave this errors dialog:

Could not install the upgrades

The upgrade aborts now. Your system could be in an unusable state. A recovery was run (dpkg --configure -a).

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport.

/var/log/dist-upgrade/term.log:
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
Preconfiguring packages ...

/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log:
[is long, but failed at his point:]
MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'ubuntu-desktop'
ERROR:root:SystemError from cache.commit(): installArchives() failed

I was browsing w/ Firefox, during the download updates process.