package update-manager 1:0.93.26 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Steve Beattie]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Large upgrade of 3500+ packages from hardy->intrepid. A couple of failures occurred in packages (djview, openoffice's unopkg.bin) as well as this one for update-manager.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Package: update-manager 1:0.93.26
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.93.26 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-virtual i686

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Here is the error:

Setting up djview (3.5.20-7ubuntu2) ...
ls: cannot access /usr/share/man/man1/djview3.*: No such file or directory
basename: missing operand
Try `basename --help' for more information.
  --config <name> show alternatives for the <name> group and ask the
                           user to select which one to use.
  --set <name> <path> set <path> as alternative for <name>.
  --all call --config on all alternatives.
<link> is the symlink pointing to /etc/alternatives/<name>.
  (e.g. /usr/bin/pager)
<name> is the master name for this link group.
  (e.g. pager)
<path> is the location of one of the alternative target files.
  (e.g. /usr/bin/less)
<priority> is an integer; options with higher numbers have higher priority in
  automatic mode.
Options:
  --altdir <directory> change the alternatives directory.
  --admindir <directory> change the administrative directory.
  --verbose verbose operation, more output.
  --quiet quiet operation, minimal output.
  --help show this help message.
  --version show the version.
dpkg: error processing djview (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

The djview package is fixed with the -7ubntu3 upload.

[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

Bah, that makes this a duplicate of bug 277301, marking as such. Thanks Michael for digging that out.