package update-manager 1:0.87.31 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)

[jeet14122]

Binary package hint: update-manager

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

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 11 22:08:53 2009
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)

Package: update-manager 1:0.87.31
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.87.31 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 2.6.22-14-generic i686

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

From DistupgradeTermlog:

 foomatic-db-hpijs
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "logging/__init__.py", line 753, in emit
    self.flush()
  File "logging/__init__.py", line 731, in flush
    self.stream.flush()
IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

The root of the problem is:

Setting up ssl-cert (1.0.14-0ubuntu2.1) ...
dpkg: error processing ssl-cert (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Unfortunately no further infomration in the log why ssl-cert fails.