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package update-manager 1:0.93.34 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed

Bug #372174 reported by Jimmy on 2009-05-05

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #326656: SystemError from cache.commit(): installArchives() failed - cache.commit() error and pkg_failures == 0. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

Just went thought the GUI upgrade process. Failed half way though.

Had to use apt-get dist-upgrade to complete the upgrade.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed

Package: update-manager 1:0.93.34
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.93.34 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

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Jimmy (jimmyff) wrote on 2009-05-05:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (14.0 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (68.1 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (10.6 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz Edit (24.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote on 2009-12-28:

Thanks for your report.

The error was
=====
Unpacking replacement language-support-writing-en ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/logging/__init__.py", line 753, in emit
    self.flush()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/logging/__init__.py", line 731, in flush
    self.stream.flush()
b_1%3a2.4.0-2ubuntu4_all.deb) ...
IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
Could not import module, is a package upgrade in progress? Error: No module named glib
uage-support-writing-en_1%3a8.10+20080904_all.deb) ...
====

Since you reported it a while ago, we are wondering if it's still an issue ?

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote on 2010-01-16:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 326656, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.