Could not install the upgra (Feisty update-manager)

Bug #96605 reported by Rob Byrd
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update-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

Downloaded about 120 MB (about 1 week since prior upgrade) of upgrades for Ubuntu 7.04 Alpha and got a msg saying: Could not install the upgrades

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

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport.... E:I wasn't able to locate file for the libc6 package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.

term.log was empty, but here is the apt.log as requested. If there is anything else I can do let me know.

desktop:~$ cd /var/log/dist-upgrade
desktop:/var/log/dist-upgrade$ ls
apt.log term.log
desktop:/var/log/dist-upgrade$ cat apt.log
Starting
Starting 2
Investigating upstart
Package upstart has broken dep on sysvinit
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 29
  Removing upstart rather than change sysvinit
Investigating upstart-compat-sysv
Package upstart-compat-sysv has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to upstart-compat-sysv 13
  Removing upstart-compat-sysv rather than change upstart
Investigating startup-tasks
Package startup-tasks has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to startup-tasks 8
  Removing startup-tasks rather than change upstart
Investigating system-services
Package system-services has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to system-services 8
  Removing system-services rather than change upstart
Investigating upstart-logd
Package upstart-logd has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to upstart-logd 8
  Removing upstart-logd rather than change upstart
Investigating ubuntu-minimal
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on startup-tasks
  Considering startup-tasks 8 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 4
  Removing ubuntu-minimal rather than change startup-tasks
Done
Starting
Starting 2
Investigating ubuntu-minimal
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on startup-tasks
  Considering startup-tasks 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added startup-tasks to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on system-services
  Considering system-services 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added system-services to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart-compat-sysv
  Considering upstart-compat-sysv 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart-compat-sysv to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart-logd
  Considering upstart-logd 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart-logd to the remove list
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of startup-tasks
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of system-services
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart-compat-sysv
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart-logd
Investigating upstart
Package upstart has broken dep on sysvinit
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 1
  Removing upstart rather than change sysvinit
Investigating ubuntu-minimal
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart to the remove list
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart
Investigating upstart
Package upstart has broken dep on sysvinit
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 1
  Removing upstart rather than change sysvinit
Investigating ubuntu-minimal
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart to the remove list
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart
Investigating upstart
Package upstart has broken dep on sysvinit
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 10004
  Added sysvinit to the remove list
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 10004
  Fixing upstart via keep of sysvinit
Done
MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'ubuntu-desktop'
Installing libgtkhtml3.14-19 as dep of evolution
Installing gtkhtml3.14 as dep of evolution
Installing cupsys-client as dep of cupsys-bsd
Installing libvte-common as dep of libvte9
Starting
Starting 2
Investigating upstart
Package upstart has broken dep on sysvinit
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 29
  Removing upstart rather than change sysvinit
Investigating upstart-compat-sysv
Package upstart-compat-sysv has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to upstart-compat-sysv 13
  Removing upstart-compat-sysv rather than change upstart
Investigating startup-tasks
Package startup-tasks has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to startup-tasks 8
  Removing startup-tasks rather than change upstart
Investigating system-services
Package system-services has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to system-services 8
  Removing system-services rather than change upstart
Investigating upstart-logd
Package upstart-logd has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to upstart-logd 8
  Removing upstart-logd rather than change upstart
Investigating ubuntu-minimal
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on startup-tasks
  Considering startup-tasks 8 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 4
  Removing ubuntu-minimal rather than change startup-tasks
Done
Starting
Starting 2
Investigating ubuntu-minimal
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on startup-tasks
  Considering startup-tasks 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added startup-tasks to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on system-services
  Considering system-services 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added system-services to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart-compat-sysv
  Considering upstart-compat-sysv 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart-compat-sysv to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart-logd
  Considering upstart-logd 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart-logd to the remove list
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of startup-tasks
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of system-services
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart-compat-sysv
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart-logd
Investigating upstart
Package upstart has broken dep on sysvinit
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 1
  Removing upstart rather than change sysvinit
Investigating ubuntu-minimal
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart to the remove list
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart
Investigating upstart
Package upstart has broken dep on sysvinit
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 1
  Removing upstart rather than change sysvinit
Investigating ubuntu-minimal
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart to the remove list
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart
Investigating upstart
Package upstart has broken dep on sysvinit
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 10004
  Added sysvinit to the remove list
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 10004
  Fixing upstart via keep of sysvinit
Done
MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'ubuntu-desktop'
ERROR:root:SystemError from cache.commit(): installArchives() failed
Installing cupsys-client as dep of cupsys-bsd
Installing python2.5-minimal as dep of python2.5
Installing libpoppler1 as dep of libpoppler1-glib
Installing libgadu3 as dep of gaim
Installing gnome-panel-data as dep of gnome-panel
Starting
Starting 2
Investigating upstart
Package upstart has broken dep on sysvinit
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 29
  Removing upstart rather than change sysvinit
Investigating upstart-compat-sysv
Package upstart-compat-sysv has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to upstart-compat-sysv 13
  Removing upstart-compat-sysv rather than change upstart
Investigating startup-tasks
Package startup-tasks has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to startup-tasks 8
  Removing startup-tasks rather than change upstart
Investigating system-services
Package system-services has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to system-services 8
  Removing system-services rather than change upstart
Investigating upstart-logd
Package upstart-logd has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to upstart-logd 8
  Removing upstart-logd rather than change upstart
Investigating ubuntu-minimal
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on startup-tasks
  Considering startup-tasks 8 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 4
  Removing ubuntu-minimal rather than change startup-tasks
Done
Starting
Starting 2
Investigating ubuntu-minimal
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on startup-tasks
  Considering startup-tasks 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added startup-tasks to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on system-services
  Considering system-services 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added system-services to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart-compat-sysv
  Considering upstart-compat-sysv 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart-compat-sysv to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart-logd
  Considering upstart-logd 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart-logd to the remove list
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of startup-tasks
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of system-services
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart-compat-sysv
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart-logd
Investigating upstart
Package upstart has broken dep on sysvinit
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 1
  Removing upstart rather than change sysvinit
Investigating ubuntu-minimal
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart to the remove list
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart
Investigating upstart
Package upstart has broken dep on sysvinit
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 1
  Removing upstart rather than change sysvinit
Investigating ubuntu-minimal
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 1 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart to the remove list
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart
Investigating upstart
Package upstart has broken dep on sysvinit
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 10004
  Added sysvinit to the remove list
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 10004
  Fixing upstart via keep of sysvinit
Done
MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'ubuntu-desktop'
Starting
Starting 2
Investigating linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-9-generic
Package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-9-generic has broken dep on linux-image-2.6.20-9-generic
  Considering linux-image-2.6.20-9-generic 10001 as a solution to linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-9-generic -1
  Removing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-9-generic rather than change linux-image-2.6.20-9-generic
Done
Installing linux-headers-2.6.20-12-generic as dep of linux-headers-generic
Installing linux-headers-2.6.20-12 as dep of linux-headers-2.6.20-12-generic
new important dependency: command-not-found
Installing command-not-found as dep of ubuntu-standard
Setting NOT as auto-installed because its a direct dep of a package in section metapackages
Installing command-not-found-data as dep of command-not-found
Installing gnome-games-data as dep of gnome-games
Installing gdebi-core as dep of gdebi
Installing linux-image-2.6.20-12-generic as dep of linux-image-generic
Installing compiz-core as dep of compiz-gtk
Installing libgnome-window-settings1 as dep of gnome-control-center
new important dependency: restricted-manager
Installing restricted-manager as dep of ubuntu-desktop
Setting NOT as auto-installed because its a direct dep of a package in section metapackages
Installing python-notify as dep of restricted-manager
new important dependency: scim-tables-additional
Installing scim-tables-additional as dep of ubuntu-desktop
Setting NOT as auto-installed because its a direct dep of a package in section metapackages
Installing scim-modules-table as dep of scim-tables-additional
Installing libc6 as dep of libc6-i686
Installing libvte-common as dep of libvte9
Installing libmagic1 as dep of file
Installing libgl1-mesa-glx as dep of libgl1-mesa-dri
Installing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-12-generic as dep of linux-restricted-modules-generic
Starting
Starting 2
Investigating upstart
Package upstart has broken dep on sysvinit
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 29
  Removing upstart rather than change sysvinit
Investigating upstart-compat-sysv
Package upstart-compat-sysv has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to upstart-compat-sysv 13
  Removing upstart-compat-sysv rather than change upstart
Investigating startup-tasks
Package startup-tasks has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to startup-tasks 8
  Removing startup-tasks rather than change upstart
Investigating system-services
Package system-services has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to system-services 8
  Removing system-services rather than change upstart
Investigating upstart-logd
Package upstart-logd has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to upstart-logd 8
  Removing upstart-logd rather than change upstart
Investigating ubuntu-minimal
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on startup-tasks
  Considering startup-tasks 8 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 4
  Removing ubuntu-minimal rather than change startup-tasks
Done
Installing startup-tasks as dep of ubuntu-minimal
Setting NOT as auto-installed because its a direct dep of a package in section metapackages
Installing system-services as dep of ubuntu-minimal
Setting NOT as auto-installed because its a direct dep of a package in section metapackages
Installing upstart as dep of ubuntu-minimal
Setting NOT as auto-installed because its a direct dep of a package in section metapackages
Installing upstart-compat-sysv as dep of ubuntu-minimal
Setting NOT as auto-installed because its a direct dep of a package in section metapackages
Installing upstart-logd as dep of ubuntu-minimal
Setting NOT as auto-installed because its a direct dep of a package in section metapackages
Starting
Starting 2
Investigating upstart
Package upstart has broken dep on sysvinit
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 29
  Removing upstart rather than change sysvinit
Investigating upstart-compat-sysv
Package upstart-compat-sysv has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to upstart-compat-sysv 13
  Removing upstart-compat-sysv rather than change upstart
Investigating startup-tasks
Package startup-tasks has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to startup-tasks 8
  Removing startup-tasks rather than change upstart
Investigating system-services
Package system-services has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to system-services 8
  Removing system-services rather than change upstart
Investigating upstart-logd
Package upstart-logd has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to upstart-logd 8
  Removing upstart-logd rather than change upstart
Investigating ubuntu-minimal
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on startup-tasks
  Considering startup-tasks 8 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added startup-tasks to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on system-services
  Considering system-services 8 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added system-services to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart-compat-sysv
  Considering upstart-compat-sysv 13 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart-compat-sysv to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart-logd
  Considering upstart-logd 8 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart-logd to the remove list
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of startup-tasks
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of system-services
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart-compat-sysv
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart-logd
Investigating upstart
Package upstart has broken dep on sysvinit
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 29
  Removing upstart rather than change sysvinit
Investigating upstart-compat-sysv
Package upstart-compat-sysv has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to upstart-compat-sysv 13
  Removing upstart-compat-sysv rather than change upstart
Investigating startup-tasks
Package startup-tasks has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to startup-tasks 8
  Removing startup-tasks rather than change upstart
Investigating system-services
Package system-services has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to system-services 8
  Removing system-services rather than change upstart
Investigating upstart-logd
Package upstart-logd has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to upstart-logd 8
  Removing upstart-logd rather than change upstart
Investigating ubuntu-minimal
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on startup-tasks
  Considering startup-tasks 8 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added startup-tasks to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on system-services
  Considering system-services 8 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added system-services to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart
  Considering upstart 29 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart-compat-sysv
  Considering upstart-compat-sysv 13 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart-compat-sysv to the remove list
Package ubuntu-minimal has broken dep on upstart-logd
  Considering upstart-logd 8 as a solution to ubuntu-minimal 10004
  Added upstart-logd to the remove list
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of startup-tasks
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of system-services
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart-compat-sysv
  Fixing ubuntu-minimal via keep of upstart-logd
Investigating upstart
Package upstart has broken dep on sysvinit
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 10004
  Added sysvinit to the remove list
  Considering sysvinit 5099 as a solution to upstart 10004
  Fixing upstart via keep of sysvinit
Done
ERROR:root:IOError in cache.commit(): 'Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics_0.14.6-0ubuntu6_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.89.8 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux-meta/linux-image-generic_2.6.20.12.9_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/l/linux-meta/linux-restricted-modules-generic_2.6.20.12.9_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/l/linux-meta/linux-generic_2.6.20.12.9_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux-meta/linux-headers-generic_2.6.20.12.9_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/t/thaifonts-scalable/ttf-thai-tlwg_0.4.5-3_all.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
'. Retrying (currentTry: 0)
ERROR:root:SystemError from cache.commit(): E:I wasn't able to locate file for the libc6 package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.

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Carlos Tasada (ctasada) wrote :

I've exactly the same problem. Here are attached the related log files.

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

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport.
installArchives() failed

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Rob Byrd (byrdr-ikm) wrote :

(Sorry I posted this response to the wrong [but similar] bug earlier and now can't find it. It belongs here.)

I tried an update again after "unchecking" lib6c (and a couple lib6c*) the updates quickly downloaded and I saw a desktop (not a "please reboot" msg). I then clicked on the update icon again and saw about 11 new packages (several more than the lib6c*. I continued the install and after a few minutes Ubuntu asked me to reboot to complete the upgrade. I did and everything was fine. Could this be as simple as an install order problem?

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.
@Carlos Tasada:
This is the error message that caused the problem:
"""
dpkg: fallo al abrir el fichero de información del paquete `/var/lib/dpkg/available' para leer: No existe el fichero ó directorio
ble' para leer: No existe el fichero ó directorio
"""
This sounds like your /var/lib/dpkg/available file is missing? Can you please confirm that via runing (in a terminal):
$ ls -la /var/lib/dpkg/
and post the output to a seperate bugreport please? Your logs look different and unreleated to the original report.

@Rob Byrd:
This is a strange error. Can you please run (in a terminal):
$ ls -la /var/cache/apt/archives > /tmp/ls-output
and attach the output (as a file) to this report?

Thanks,
 michael

Changed in update-manager:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for update-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

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