How many errors .. just trying to upgrade!
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: udev 173-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-12.51-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CustomUdevRuleFiles: README.dpkg-new
Date: Sat Nov 19 22:45:58 2011
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
MachineType: Standard XS35
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-12-generic root=UUID=368e3a48-a7ab-4264-bb5e-a037abaf22c6 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: udev
Title: package udev 173-0ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-19 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 07/28/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 080015
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: B10IE01
dmi.board.vendor: Shuttle
dmi.board.version: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Shuttle
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr080015:bd07/28/2010:svnStandard:pnXS35:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnShuttle:rnB10IE01:rvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:cvnShuttle:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: XS35
dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.sys.vendor: Standard
The first failure in the log is
Voorbereiden om libselinux1 2.0.96-1ubuntu2 te vervangen (door .../libselinux1
Uitpakken van vervangende libselinux1 ...
dpkg: error: dpkg status database is locked by another process
which means that there was some other package operation in parallel.
This failure then triggered failures of libpam-modules-bin, procps, udev, etc. If you just re-attempt the update with
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
it should recover. However, the interesting question is how it could happen that there is another dpkg running in parallel. This is either a dpkg or perhaps an update-manager bug.