Ubuntu
update-manager package

feisty fawn upgrade crashed during final cleanup

Bug #112517 reported by Peter Leopold
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update-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

The update manager tells me I should attach files. Alas, there is no file attachment feature at this website. This might help:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/kde-root/adept_managerC4htnb.tmp-extract/dist-upgrade.py", line 56, in ?
    app.run()
  File "/tmp/kde-root/adept_managerC4htnb.tmp-extract/DistUpgradeControler.py", line 1025, in run
    self.fullUpgrade()
  File "/tmp/kde-root/adept_managerC4htnb.tmp-extract/DistUpgradeControler.py", line 1014, in fullUpgrade
    self.doPostUpgrade()
  File "/tmp/kde-root/adept_managerC4htnb.tmp-extract/DistUpgradeControler.py", line 740, in doPostUpgrade
    res = self.cache.commit(fprogress,iprogress)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/cache.py", line 204, in commit
    if res == pm.ResultCompleted:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/cache.py", line 179, in installArchives
    installProgress.finishUpdate()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/progress.py", line 206, in run
    select.select([self.statusfd],[],[], self.selectTimeout)
  File "/tmp/kde-root/adept_managerC4htnb.tmp-extract/DistUpgradeViewKDE.py", line 227, in fork
    self.child_pid = os.fork()
OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote :

Please make sure that you have got enough free memory and that your swap partition is enabled. How much memory do you have in your computer?

You can attach files at the bottom of this page.

Cheers,

Sebastian

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Peter Leopold (peter-leopold) wrote : Re: [Bug 112517] Re: feisty fawn upgrade crashed during final cleanup

Sebastian,

The good news is that, on reboot, feisty fawn came up OK. The installer
crash was somehow trivial, I guess. To answer your questions:

1) 1GB of RAM
2) Swap is OK.
3) No, there was no place to upload the requested files as I entered my
bug. Perhaps if I hack around at your web site I might find something,
but I'm not interested in that. As I respond to this email, I'm not sure
which files I should attach, and since I am now 100 miles from the
computer in question anyway, I have nothing to attach. It would make
sense to have a file upload feature attached to the bug report entry web
page.

So far so good . . .

Here is a feature request: I'd like up do the same adept-managed upgrade
to an Edgy Eft installation on an external USB drive that I carry with
my laptop. Of course, this involves modifying files
/root/boot/configThis, /root/boot/configThat,
/root/boot/LooksLikeAConfigButDontTouch, etc., to point at the external
USB image. I spent a weekend on the problem a few months ago, and
succeeded in getting the external boot to work. But if memory serves,
there were many places to take a wrong turn -- it took a whole weekend
to stop making wrong turns, after all -- so I suggest that the
adept-upgrader should be aware of these config files and not overwrite
them. Life is too short to relearn arcane file naming/linking/pointing
conventions ever three months. :)

Peter

Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> Please make sure that you have got enough free memory and that your swap
> partition is enabled. How much memory do you have in your computer?
>
> You can attach files at the bottom of this page.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sebastian
>

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Richard Birnie (rbirnie-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

cascokid,

thanks for the report. This is a known issue that is currently being tracked as bug 107188.

Changed in update-manager:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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