When updating the distribution to Ubuntu 7.10 via 'update manager' dozens of packages failed to initialize including login and sudo, with endless rounds of dialogs indicating so, culminating in an abort-of-installation dialog and an attempt to make the system usable with a warning that it may not be, followed by a request for this bug report to be made against 'update manager' with the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ which I attach. The system still boots, but I don't trust it and I am going to start over with 8.4.
ERROR:
Setting up libpam0g (0.99.7.1-5ubuntu1) ...
Checking for services that may need to be restarted...
Checking for services that may need to be restarted...Checking init scripts...
7.2-5ubuntu13_all.deb) ...
*** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/perl: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x08d69f40 ***
/usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0[0xb708806f]
/usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0(gdk_window_process_all_updates+0xba)[0xb708873a]
/usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0[0xb708879b]
/usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0[0xb706e5e8]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0xb7a64551]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x17c)[0xb7a6611c]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0xb7a6955f]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_loop_run+0x1a9)[0xb7a69909]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_main+0xb4)[0xb72329e4]
/usr/lib/perl5/auto/Gtk2/Gtk2.so(XS_Gtk2_main+0x91)[0xb754cab1]
/usr/bin/perl(Perl_pp_entersub+0x3ab)[0x80c23ab]
/usr/bin/perl(Perl_runops_standard+0x19)[0x80c0d09]
/usr/bin/perl(perl_run+0x2ea)[0x806727a]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-0814c000 r-xp 00000000 16:01 7602370 /usr/bin/perl
0814c000-08150000 rw-p 00103000 16:01 7602370 /usr/bin/perl
08150000-08e05000 rw-p 08150000 00:00 0 [heap]
b4c9a000-b4ca4000 r-xp 00000000 16:01 5259279 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b4ca4000-b4ca5000 rw-p 0000a000 16:01 5259279 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b4cb5000-b5d9d000 r--p 00000000 16:01 8442285 /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/icon-theme.cache
b5d9d000-b6444000 r--p 00000000 16:01 7930937 /usr/share/icons/gnome/icon-theme.cache
b6444000-b669b000 r--p 000000
b6444000-b669b000 r--p 000000/usr/share/debconf/confmodule: line 42: printf: write error: Broken pipe
GET libpam0g/restart-services
dpkg: error processing libpam0g (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Aborted), core dumped
Errors were encountered while processing:
libpam0g
Did you mistype and mean that you were trying to upgrade from Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10?