Comment 4 for bug 1070684
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| Jon Eliot (jon-stromme) wrote Re: Fatal error during do-dist-upgrade 12.04 -> 12.10 | #4 |
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(Get the code!)
The entire error is a red herring, I now think.
A cron job was running that started an "apt-get upgrade" while the dist-upgrade was running. Ouch.
Edited the <package>.postinst file that subsequently crashed, stopped cron, did a dist-upgrade, then removed and reinstalled the package in question. Everything works fine. This is the first distribution in years that handles suspend/resume robustly on my laptop - many thanks to whoever fixed the kernel.
Perhaps do-release-upgrade should suspend cron processing while upgrading?
If that is the intention, then it didn't work.
I will add the files if you still think it useful.