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update-manager package

package update-manager 1:0.85.4 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

Bug #173599 reported by topdog on 2007-12-03

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

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

The upgrade fails if you have a custom kernel installed. It fails when doing an update of the initramfs

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Dec 3 09:28:36 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

Package: update-manager 1:0.85.4
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.85.4 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Uname: Linux andrew 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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topdog (andrew-topdog-software) wrote on 2007-12-03:

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2008-01-30:

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.

Changed in update-manager:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2008-02-26:

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!.