package update-manager None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/update-manager.list] failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libc6

[Smoke.007]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I'm trying to do a dis-upgrade by using the command bellow.

kdesu "adept_manager --dist-upgrade-devel"

It goes thru the whole process to the point of installing the files it's downloaded and then I get the error.
update-manager failed to install/upgrade

I've restarted the computer and tried again. No luck. Same error.

Description: Ubuntu 8.04.2
Release: 8.04

update-manager:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:0.93.34
  Version table:
     1:0.93.34 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages
     1:0.93.32 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 12 12:15:40 2009
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libc6

NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
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(): E:Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-22-generic i686

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Here is the error:

2009-02-12 12:15:40,678 ERROR SystemError from cache.commit(): E:Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libc6

Something went wrong in the ordering code. This should probably be caught much earlier :/

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

At least the error message and the recovery code are improved now. As for the real cause of the issue, I assume you long since fixed it (either by reinstalling or shuffling packages around) ?

[Smoke.007 (smoke-007)]

Hi Michael,

Yes, I finally did a clean reinstall of Kubuntu and have been up and working since. It would have just been easier to do an upgrade. I thought I would at least report the problem in an attempt to help get you techs the information.

Thanks for all your hard work!
Marc

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks Marc, you did indeed help, thanks for this! At least update-manager will cleanly recovery now for people who might be affected :)

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I close the update-manager taks on this, there is a similar one for apt open (which is the root of the problem). But update-manager will cleanly recover now from the issue.