Update Manager failed during update
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The upgrade has aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state. A recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a).
Please report this bug using the command 'ubuntu-bug update-manager' in a terminal and include the files in /var/log/
E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.152.25.5
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Dec 29 18:28:48 2011
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-12-29 (0 days ago)
Reverted to pre update state (using partimage) and attempted to reinstall all the current packages. Configure for details. (2)", though both can be configured separately. This produces the following errors in the apt logs i18n_1. 5.36ubuntu4_ all.deb) ... assistant_ set_page_ header_ image: assertion `child != NULL' failed at /usr/share/ perl5/Debconf/ FrontEnd/ Gnome.pm line 27. 2+nmu1ubuntu2 (using .../adept_ 3.0~beta7. 2+nmu1ubuntu2_ amd64.deb) ... cert_1. 0.28_all. deb) ... 0.75.1ubuntu2_ amd64.deb) ... applications/ desktop. en_GB.utf8. cache.. . applications/ bamf.index. .. assistant_ set_page_ header_ image: assertion `child != NULL' failed at /usr/share/ perl5/Debconf/ FrontEnd/ Gnome.pm line 27. 2+nmu1ubuntu2) ... assistant_ set_page_ header_ image: assertion `child != NULL' failed at /usr/share/ perl5/Debconf/ FrontEnd/ Gnome.pm line 27.
this produced an error highlighting a possible circular dependency "pre-depend debconf-2.0 for libpam-modules". Also noticed that can not reinstall debconf and debconf-i18n at the same time as this yields an error "E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'debconf-i18n'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-
"Log started: 2011-12-30 16:38:47
(Reading database ... 303717 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace debconf-i18n 1.5.36ubuntu4 (using .../debconf-
Unpacking replacement debconf-i18n ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_
Setting up debconf-i18n (1.5.36ubuntu4) ...
(Reading database ... 303717 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace adept 3.0~beta7.
Unpacking replacement adept ...
Preparing to replace ssl-cert 1.0.28 (using .../ssl-
Unpacking replacement ssl-cert ...
Preparing to replace synaptic 0.75.1ubuntu2 (using .../synaptic_
Unpacking replacement synaptic ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Setting up adept (3.0~beta7.
Setting up ssl-cert (1.0.28) ...
Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_
Setting up synaptic (0.75.1ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Log ended: 2011-12-30 16:38:56
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Not sure whether either of these issues are related or not.