update manager unexpectedly terminated before completion of upgrade

[PowerUser]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Attempted to upgrade Kubuntu 8.04 x64 to 8.10.

Update manager worked, then complained about problem with Motion package (separate bug filed). Then it continued.
However before cleanup phase it has repeated message about Motion package and then unexpectedly terminated. It offered to send bug report - done.

Now, upgrade logs are attached. Looks like update has been mostly OK but no cleanup phase has occured :(

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Here is what is causing the error:

Setting up motion (3.2.9-6) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/motion ...
 * Starting motion detection : motion
[0] Processing thread 0 - config file /etc/motion/motion.conf
[0] Motion 3.2.9 Started
[0] ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD 3355136 LIBAVFORMAT_BUILD 3409664
[0] Thread 1 is from /etc/motion/motion.conf
[1] Thread 1 started
[1] Failed to open video device /dev/video0: No such file or directory
[1] Capture error calling vid_start
[1] Thread finishing...
   ...fail!
invoke-rc.d: initscript motion, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing motion (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[PowerUser (i-am-sergey)]

Yes, that's true. It also fails in similar manner if other packages fail to upgrade. However motion is not a critical package so there is no reasons to fail in such way (as well as in case of any other non-critical packages).

[raw (coldclearlight-yahoo)]

iwas upgrading to 9.04 from 8.04 maybe different noobie here

[Pander (pander)]

I think this bug can be closed as it is more than 10 years old and the OS versions referred to are no longer supported. Also the current version of motion works fine out of the box without this error.