package update-manager 1:0.87.24 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Jeremy Akers]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I just upgraded to 8.04 from 7.10 and I'm getting bombarded with requests from the new crash report utility to log my crashes to the Ubuntu website, so here I am.

I notice that there are quite a few bugs that look very similar to this one, the only difference is they have different version numbers, so I guess I'll log this as a new bug and let someone more experienced decide if it's a duplicate of another bug or not. :)

I upgraded using the 'Update Manager' update method over the Internet.

-Jeremy

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 26 21:23:32 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.87.24
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.87.24 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Please attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade to this bugreport.
 Thanks Michael

[Jeremy Akers (irwinr12)]

All non-empty files in /var/log/dist-upgrade have been uploaded.

-Jeremy

[Nick Ellery (nick.ellery)]

Thanks for your report. As the necessary files have been attached, I'm confirming this bug.

[Markus Korn (thekorn)]

Set status to Triaged as requested information was added

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

The cause of the failure is
=====
Setting up cpp-3.3-doc (1:3.3.6-15ubuntu4) ...
sh: cannot open /usr/share/info/cpp-3.3.info.gz: No such file
install-info(/usr/share/info/cpp-3.3.info.gz):
dpkg: error processing cpp-3.3-doc (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
=====

affecting to gcc-3.3

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

reassign back to update-manager, hardy-updates for universe is not enabled

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Jeremy Akers (irwinr12)]

Are you kidding? This was a bug I experienced while upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04. How exactly do you propose I "try with the latest Ubuntu release?"

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Sorry for the boilerplate message. I'm closing this report because it is not a issue anymore and the problem cannot be reproduced.
Thanks and don't hesitate to submit any new bug.