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[apport] package update-manager failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed

Bug #114959 reported by matt felser on 2007-05-16

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #115155: [apport] package update-manager failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed. Edit Remove

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

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

This occurred when performing a partial upgrade on May 16 at 12:20 EST.

ProblemType: Package
Date: Wed May 16 00:20:36 2007
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed

Package: update-manager
SourcePackage: update-manager

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Leandro Gómez (leogg) wrote on 2007-05-17:

Hello matt,

Thanks for your bug report. Can you please attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade in order to better diagnose the problem. Also, did you have Synaptic open when you did the upgrade? - see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/99343

Thank you,

Leo

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matt felser (mfelser) wrote on 2007-05-17:

apt.log Edit (5.9 KiB, text/plain)

I did not have synaptic running....

Term.log:
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
dpkg: status database area is locked by another process
dpkg: status database area is locked by another process
dpkg: status database area is locked by another process
ERROR:root:SystemError from cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)