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update-manager package

update-manager crashed with libpam-systemd in _show_transaction(): Depends: systemd (= 225-1ubuntu9) but 225-1ubuntu4 is installed

Bug #1530435 reported by Edson Gomes on 2016-01-01

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1317164: Show reason of TransactionFailed and let the user try again instead of crashing. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	apt-get-install (Ubuntu)	New	Medium	Unassigned
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	New	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

While running the command line apt-get -f install to repair broken packages, it returns the following error : "dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: unknown group 'crontab' in statoverride file
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)"

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: update-manager 1:15.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-11.13-generic 4.2.1
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.18.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Fri Jan 1 12:17:25 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
GsettingsChanges:
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'false'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'437'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'726'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1451650851'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-29 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150924)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/update-manager
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with libpam-systemd in _show_transaction(): Depends: systemd (= 225-1ubuntu9) but 225-1ubuntu4 is installed
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm audio avahi backup bin cdrom colord daemon dialout dip disk fax games gnats input lpadmin netdev nopasswdlogin plugdev proxy pulse pulse-access root sambashare saned sasl scanner shadow src ssl-cert sudo sys syslog systemd-bus-proxy systemd-journal systemd-network systemd-resolve systemd-timesync tape users utmp uucp uuidd video voice whoopsie www-data

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Edson Gomes (moleather40) wrote on 2016-01-01:

Aptdaemon.txt Edit (15.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt.txt Edit (62.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (14.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt.txt Edit (22.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt.txt Edit (3.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (23.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (74.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Traceback.txt Edit (779 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) wrote on 2016-01-06: Bug is not a security issue

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

information type:

Private Security → Public

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2016-01-11

tags:	removed: need-duplicate-check
Changed in apt-get-install (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium