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package update-manager 1:0.93.34 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed

Bug #377252 reported by Neil Redgate on 2009-05-16

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #442651: Update of Ubuntu from 9.04 to 9.10 Beta fails with error message regarding OpenOffice. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

following instructions for updating 8.10 to 9.04.
update stopped during "getting new packages" and now will run dpkg --configure -a.
System may be unstable.
When update manager is now launched - I have ~1500 updates and asked to run partial upgrade. When this is run it fails at the same point in the first upgrade.

Running sudo do-release-upgrade -d, the following error message appears -

This usually means that another package management application (like
apt-get or aptitude) is already running. Please close that
application first.

Could not install the upgrades

The upgrade is now aborted. Your system could be in an unusable
state. A recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a).

/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:18: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet
warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)

Upgrade complete

The upgrade has completed but there were errors during the upgrade
process.

No other package management application is running

Help please

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed

NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.93.34
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.93.34 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic i686

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Neil Redgate (office-ndres) wrote on 2009-05-16:

logs.zip Edit (335.5 KiB, application/zip)
Dependencies.txt Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgrade200905160947.gz Edit (40 bytes, application/x-gzip)

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Peter Eskolin (peter-eskolin) wrote on 2009-10-06:

I noticed same bug when selecting menu: System->Administration->Updatemanager
Update manager started and prompted for error but when i run from shell: apt-get update, apt-get upgrade were working normally and pacgages were updated.

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote on 2009-12-28:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 442651, so it 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.