Upgrade Manager crashes during upgrade from Kubuntu Hardy to Intrepid

[Swâmi Petaramesh]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Same problem met on 3 different machines :

During upgrade from Kubuntu Hardy to Intrepid, upgrade manager silently crashes (its window disappears, "ps" shows it doesn't run anymore) and the machine is left is a severely incoherent, half-upgraded, unbootable state.

Only solution if the finish the upgrade manually using a combination of successive "dpkg --configure -a", "aptitude upgrade" and "aptitude install", which shows that exists a serious dependancy problem involving Amarok.

On 4 machines I upgraded from Hardy to Intrepid, 3 failed this way, only one went thru smoothly and the one that went thru smoothly had both Kubuntu and Ubuntu desktops installed. The 3 ones having only Kubuntu desktop crashed in the described manner.

(Actually the one that went thru OK was the dirtiest machine I had, that had been thru severeal dist-upgrades over the years, the 3 that crashed had a "clean" Kubuntu Hardy install before the upgrade...)

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed

NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: update-manager None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/update-manager.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/update-manager.list] failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686