package update-manager 1:0.81 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /tmp/tmp1gszYr/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /tmp/tmp1gszYr/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add all the files contained in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ to your bug report as separate attachments? Thanks in advance.

Since I have an Intel chip, I probably checked something wrong if this
is an amd64 problem. I probably was too careless when I started the
update. Sorry to cause the confusion. Luther

Kunst Uber Alles wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: update-manager
>
> near the end of the upgrade. Before this some errors appear connected to
> initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Fri Nov 23 17:04:22 2007
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
> ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /tmp/tmp1gszYr/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /tmp/tmp1gszYr/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> Package: update-manager 1:0.81
> PackageArchitecture: all
> SourcePackage: update-manager
> Title: package update-manager 1:0.81 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /tmp/tmp1gszYr/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /tmp/tmp1gszYr/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> Uname: Linux darkstar 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:31:23 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> ** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
>
> ** Tags: apport-package
>
>

after the crash, the update ended and now everything is very slow

I find that the slowdown on gutsy is not related to this bug or the crash, the reason is Xgl, if you disable it, everything is ok.

The cause of the failure was:
=====
A preparar para substituir cupsys 1.2.8-0ubuntu8.1 (a usar .../cupsys_1.3.2-1ubuntu7.1_amd64.deb) ...
 * Stopping Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
   ...done.
chown: não consigo aceder a `/var/run/cups': Ficheiro ou directoria inexistente
dpkg: erro processando /var/cache/apt/archives/cupsys_1.3.2-1ubuntu7.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 subprocesso pre-installation script retornou erro do status de saída 1
A preparar para substituir cupsys-bsd 1.2.8-0ubuntu8.1 (a usar .../cupsys-bsd_1.3.2-1ubuntu7.1_amd64.deb) ...
A descompactar substituto cupsys-bsd ...
A preparar para substituir cupsys-client 1.2.8-0ubuntu8.1 (a usar .../cupsys-client_1.3.2-1ubuntu7.1_amd64.deb) ...
A descompactar substituto cupsys-client ...
Foram encontrados erros enquanto processava:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/cupsys_1.3.2-1ubuntu7.1_amd64.deb
=====

affecting to cupsys

This bug has being reported a while ago and we were wondering if it's still an issue ?

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!