package_hook crashed with IOError in write()

Binary package hint: apport

in a series of crashes after reboot from the partial upgrade which left nvidia unoperable

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashReports:
 600:0:0:360334:2009-04-04 10:57:44.000000000 +0200:2009-04-04 10:57:45.000000000 +0200:/var/crash/nvidia-glx-180.0.crash
 600:1000:1000:1188849:2009-04-04 10:58:35.000000000 +0200:2009-04-04 10:58:36.000000000 +0200:/var/crash/_usr_lib_gnome-panel_sensors-applet.1000.crash
 600:0:0:9951:2009-04-04 10:59:19.000000000 +0200:2009-04-04 10:59:20.000000000 +0200:/var/crash/_usr_share_apport_package_hook.0.crash
 600:0:0:178475:2009-04-04 10:20:11.000000000 +0200:2009-04-04 10:20:12.000000000 +0200:/var/crash/nvidia-glx-180-dev.0.crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/apport/package_hook
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: apport 0.148
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/share/apport/package_hook -p nvidia-glx-180 -l /var/log/dist-upgrade/
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/apport/package_hook', '-p', 'nvidia-glx-180', '-l', '/var/log/dist-upgrade/']
SourcePackage: apport
Title: package_hook crashed with IOError in write()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-server i686
UserGroups: clamav gnokii vboxusers