10.04 LTS to 12.04.1 LTS upgrade failure - colord

[Gary]

Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04

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colord:
  Installed: 0.1.16-2
  Candidate: 0.1.16-2
  Version table:
 *** 0.1.16-2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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note: /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log was empty

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Errors were encountered while processing:
 colord
Error in function:

ERROR:root:not handled exception:
SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

A fatal error occurred

Please report this as a bug and include the files
/var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log and /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log in
your report. The upgrade has aborted.
Your original sources.list was saved in
/etc/apt/sources.list.distUpgrade.

SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ERROR:root:SystemError from cache.commit(): installArchives() failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apport-cli", line 364, in <module>
    app = CLIUserInterface()
  File "/usr/bin/apport-cli", line 123, in __init__
    apport.ui.UserInterface.__init__(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 148, in __init__
    self.crashdb = get_crashdb(None)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/crashdb.py", line 819, in get_crashdb
    with open(conf) as f:
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/apport/crashdb.conf'

Could not install the upgrades

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

Please report this bug in a browser at
http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+filebug and
attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ to the bug report.
installArchives() failed

Setting up colord (0.1.16-2) ...

Upgrade complete

The upgrade has completed but there were errors during the upgrade
process.

[Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros)]

Hi Gary, can you please run

apport-collect 1044751

from terminal.

Thank you

melchiaros

[Gary (gniemcew)]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apport-cli", line 364, in <module>
    app = CLIUserInterface()
  File "/usr/bin/apport-cli", line 123, in __init__
    apport.ui.UserInterface.__init__(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 148, in __init__
    self.crashdb = get_crashdb(None)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/crashdb.py", line 819, in get_crashdb
    with open(conf) as f:
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/apport/crashdb.conf'

[Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros)]

Please file a separete report for apport.

[Gary (gniemcew)]

apport bug report created:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1044914