[apport] package update-manager failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Couldn't configure pre-depend cupsys for cups-pdf, probably a dependency cycle.

[schenkos]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I've upgraded from 6.10 to 7.04, then from 7.04 to 7.10 RC.
I think that this bug is related to #148881 because they seem to be same kinds of failure but on another package dependency.

ProblemType: Package
Date: Tue Oct 16 16:39:36 2007
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Couldn't configure pre-depend cupsys for cups-pdf, probably a dependency cycle.

Package: update-manager
SourcePackage: update-manager

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the log files from '/var/log/dist-upgrade/' to this bugreport as attachments to your bug report? Thanks in advance.

[schenkos (schenk75)]

Hi,
Thanks for your reply. The log files are attached.
Regards

[GerhardGaußling (ggrubbish-web)]

I've been hit by the same bug. In my case the upgrade-manager stopped due to an installed package pixeldemo which does not belong to the ubuntu-distribution.
$ tail -f /var/log/dist-upgrade/term.log
gutsy: Fatal IO error 9 (Bad file descriptor) on X server :0.0.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pixeldemo:
 pixeldemo depends on libc6 (>= 2.6-1); however:
  Version of libc6 on system is 2.5-0ubuntu14.
 pixeldemo depends on libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5); however:
  Version of libfreetype6 on system is 2.2.1-5ubuntu1.1.
 pixeldemo depends on zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-1); however:
  Version of zlib1g on system is 1:1.2.3-13ubuntu4.
dpkg: error processing pixeldemo (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

But there are also a huge amount of connect errors to the server:
$ tail -f /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libx/libxmu/libxmuu-dev_1.0.3-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb Error reading from server - read (104 Connection reset by peer) [IP: 91.189.89.8 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcj-4.2/libgcj8-jar_4.2.1-5ubuntu5_all.deb Connection timed out [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/j/jakarta-log4j1.2/liblog4j1.2-java_1.2.13-4_all.deb Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/openoffice.org-filter-binfilter_2.3.0-1ubuntu5_amd64.deb Connection timed out [IP: 91.189.88.43 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/foo2zjs/foo2zjs_20070625-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Connection timed out [IP: 91.189.88.43 80]
'. Retrying (currentTry: 0)
2007-10-19 11:26:23,632 INFO cache.commit()
2007-10-19 11:27:20,112 ERROR SystemError from cache.commit(): installArchives() failed
2007-10-19 11:29:04,516 DEBUG setting MinAge to 2
2007-10-19 11:29:04,559 DEBUG setting MinAge to 2

[GerhardGaußling (ggrubbish-web)]

~$ sudo dpkg -r pixeldemo
Password:
(Reading database ... 485887 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing pixeldemo ...
dpkg - warning: while removing pixeldemo, directory `/usr/share/mime/image' not empty so not removed.
~$ warning: could not initiate dbus
Launching a SCIM daemon with Socket FrontEnd...
Loading simple Config module ...
Creating backend ...
Loading socket FrontEnd module ...
Starting SCIM as daemon ...
GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.4

[3]- Exit 1 sudo update-manager -c

This didn't work, but I hope, this will:

~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
[...]
1823 upgraded, 178 newly installed, 105 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
Need to get 2151kB/1946MB of archives.
After unpacking 784MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

Stay tuned :)

[Brian McKenna (puffnfresh)]

I had this same problem, resetting back to the Feisty repositories then removing the cups-pdf package enabled me to upgrade. I'm guessing there's a dependency problem in the Gutsy version of cups-pdf.

[GerhardGaußling (ggrubbish-web)]

Yes, dpkg -r cups-pdf helped.