package update-manager 1:0.81 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed

[pholynyk]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Just before, the Restricted-Manager had crashed... but I did not report it unfortunately

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 19 06:39:33 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed

NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.81
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.81 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed
Uname: Linux Cube 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Sun Sep 23 19:50:39 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[pholynyk (pholynyk)]

Here is the dist-upgrade log. I can start old Feisty - it sortof works, display card not detected, USB drives won't mount, but gftp and tar work OK...

[pholynyk (pholynyk)]

I did the re-upgrade script attached below...

I now seem to be mostly upgraded, but I Just noticed that I have a mix of 2.18 and 2.20 gnome packages: -core and -desktop environment seem to be old. Is this a problem? If so, how can I recover?

phil@Cube:~$ dpkg --list gnome*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===================================-===================================-======================================================================================
ii gnome-about 1:2.20.1-0ubuntu1 The GNOME about box
ii gnome-accessibility-themes 2.20.0-0ubuntu1 accessibility themes for the GNOME 2 desktop
un gnome-admin <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-alsamixer 0.9.7~cvs.20060916.ds.1-1 ALSA sound mixer for GNOME
ii gnome-app-install 0.4.13-0ubuntu1 GNOME Application Installer
ii gnome-applets 2.20.0-0ubuntu1 Various applets for GNOME 2 panel - binary files
ii gnome-applets-data 2.20.0-0ubuntu1 Various applets for GNOME 2 panel - data files
un gnome-apt <none> (no description available)
un gnome-audio <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-backgrounds 2.20.0-0ubuntu1 a set of backgrounds packaged with the GNOME desktop
ii gnome-bluetooth 0.9.1-0ubuntu1 GNOME Bluetooth tools.
ii gnome-btdownload 0.0.28-1 Gnome interface for 'executing' BitTorrent files
un gnome-card-games <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-cards-data 1:2.20.1-0ubuntu1 data files for the GNOME card games
ii gnome-control-center 1:2.20.1-0ubuntu1 utilities to configure the GNOME desktop
ii gnome-core 1:2.18.3ubuntu2 The GNOME Desktop Environment -- essential components
un gnome-cpufreq-applet <none> (no description available)
rc gnome-cups-manager 0.31-3ubuntu5 CUPS printer admin tool for GNOME
un gnome-dbg <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-desktop-data 1:2.20.1-0ubuntu1 Common files for GNOME 2 desktop apps
ii gnome-desktop-environment 1:2.18.3ubuntu2 The GNOME Desktop Environment
ii gnome-doc-utils 0.12.0-0ubuntu1 a collection of documentation utilities for the Gnome project
ii...

[pholynyk (pholynyk)]

I'm still having problems with the restricted drivers manager and the nvidia driver --- it seems the nvidia-kernel module isn't loaded according to the xorg log

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

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

[pholynyk (pholynyk)]

Well, I had attached the tgz of the dir above, but oh, well...

BTW, I got on with it by copying home to an external HD, and doing a clean install.

[pholynyk (pholynyk)]

This is the last of them. Sorry about the delay, it's been a busy weekend.

Hope this helps.

Phil O

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

The cause of the failure was
=====
ERROR IOError in cache.commit(): 'Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.6.1-1ubuntu9_i386.deb Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (91.189.89.6), connection timed out [IP: 91.189.89.6 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gstreamer0.10/libgstreamer0.10-0_0.10.14-1ubuntu3_i386.deb Connection timed out [IP: 91.189.88.43 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/eclipse/eclipse-platform_3.2.2-3ubuntu3_i386.deb Connection timed out [IP: 91.189.88.43 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/eclipse/libswt3.2-gtk-java_3.2.2-3ubuntu3_i386.deb Connection failed [IP: 91.189.89.6 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/l/ladspa-sdk/ladspa-sdk_1.1-6_i386.deb Connection timed out [IP: 91.189.88.43 80]
=====

This was caused by a network error. We are closing this report because it is not a bug in Ubuntu. Don't hesitate to reopen if it's still an error (despite the age of the report).

Thanks for your time and don't hesitate to submit any new bug.

[TK471 (tk471)]

Was it that obvious, that I didn't notice? It's been so long, and I
ended up doing a clean-install of Ubuntu. Apologies for wasting any
time, and I am running Ubuntu 8.04 i386 just fine these days! Thank you.

-Pete

Jean-Baptiste Lallement wrote:
> The cause of the failure was
> =====
> ERROR IOError in cache.commit(): 'Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.6.1-1ubuntu9_i386.deb Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (91.189.89.6), connection timed out [IP: 91.189.89.6 80]
> Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gstreamer0.10/libgstreamer0.10-0_0.10.14-1ubuntu3_i386.deb Connection timed out [IP: 91.189.88.43 80]
> Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/eclipse/eclipse-platform_3.2.2-3ubuntu3_i386.deb Connection timed out [IP: 91.189.88.43 80]
> Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/eclipse/libswt3.2-gtk-java_3.2.2-3ubuntu3_i386.deb Connection failed [IP: 91.189.89.6 80]
> Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/l/ladspa-sdk/ladspa-sdk_1.1-6_i386.deb Connection timed out [IP: 91.189.88.43 80]
> =====
>
> This was caused by a network error. We are closing this report because
> it is not a bug in Ubuntu. Don't hesitate to reopen if it's still an
> error (despite the age of the report).
>
> Thanks for your time and don't hesitate to submit any new bug.
>
> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Invalid
>
>

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