do-release-upgrade crashed with SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Bug #1545887 reported by Neil Mayhew
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Bug Description

Upgrading from 15.10 Wily to 16.04 Xenial

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:16.04.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-4.19-generic 4.4.1
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-4-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Mon Feb 15 16:18:47 2016
DuplicateSignature: SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/do-release-upgrade
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-02 (409 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-7hfqlzzw/xenial --mode=server --frontend=DistUpgradeViewText --devel-release
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade', '--mode=server', '--frontend=DistUpgradeViewText', '--devel-release']
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Title: do-release-upgrade crashed with SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Traceback: SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-02-15 (0 days ago)
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Neil Mayhew (neil.mayhew) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : This bug is a duplicate

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1292996, so 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.

tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
information type: Private → Public
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