Update-manager broke (unable to use after reboot)my system:installArchives()failed
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
I was upgrading my Ubuntu 7.10 (completely updated) to Hardy.
The preparation and the download of packeges went ok.
When the system started to install/
Also the system asked twice if I want to overwrite or keep a configuration file. These files were edited by me.
But then I got an notification (see attachement) that the upgrade was stopped (installArchive
From the embeded terminal I could see (it's not visible on the attachement) that the last text was something like that:
"/etc/readahead
--> You have the following choices...", but I didn't see any dialog to choose the overwrite/keeping of the original file as in the 2 previvous time.
Then nothing happened, so I rebooted my system and the booting to login screen failed. I had to boot to recovery mode and run these commands:
dpkg --reconfigure -a, dpkg --reconfigure -a --force all, apt-get install -f, and aptide dist-upgrade. The last command seemed to complete the upgrade as I could boot to Hardy after reboot.
Edit: When I run dpkg --reconfigure -a, the system asked what I want to do with the /etc/readahead/boot configuration file; I choosed to overwrite it. I haven't edited this file. That command failed finally,after configuring some packages with something like this: "E: Too many errors,aborting", soI run dpkg --reconfigure -a --force all, which said many times something like this: "the dependency x is not configured, but configuring anyway as forced" . Also it gave error messages about dbus so i reinstalled it.
Edit2: For the exact output of "dpkg --reconfigure -a --force all", see gutsy2hardy_
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in update-manager: | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
This files includes the error message (2008-04-24 17:51:13,350 ERROR SystemError from cache.commit(): installArchives() failed) shown in the screenshot.