package update-manager 1:0.93.32 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[akira.sug]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Error during updating ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Package: update-manager 1:0.93.32
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.93.32 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

The error is (translated from portuguese):
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Setting wamerican (6-2.2) ...
debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Gnome
debconf: (DISPLAY problem?)
debconf: trying to frontend: Dialog
debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, a buffer shell of emacs or without a terminal controller.)
debconf: trying to frontend: Readline
dpkg: error processing wamerican (- configure):
  sub-process post-installation script was killed by signal (Segmentation Fault)
=====

This is either an error with scowl or debconf.

affecting to scowl and adding a debconf task

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more maintained