Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: update-manager
Attempting what I thought would be a simple distro upgrade from a
perfectly working and stable gutsy to hardy. I ow have a corrupted
machine.
The upgrade stuck at : 'Generating locales...
en_AU.UTF-8...'
The process looping seemed to be (ex ps -eo cmd):
localedef --no-archive --magic=20051014 -i en_AU -c -f UTF-8 en_AU.UTF-8
I killed it and using 'sudo kill -s USR1 `pidof localedef`'
The upgrade continued with several warnings about the locale being bad.
It stuck twice more at :Generating locales...
en_AU.UTF-8...
localedef --no-archive --magic=20051014 -i en_AU -c -f UTF-8 en_AU.UTF-8
Processes to kill these times included the parent and grandparent of
localedef:
32285 32298 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/locale-gen --no-purge en
root 15:00:09 00:00:00
32298 32327 localedef --no-archive --magic=20051014 -i en_AU -c -f UTF-8
en_AU.UTF-8 root 15:00:09 00:00:01
32327 32328 [gzip] <defunct>
I had to 'sudo kill -9 (the 3 above)' to get the install to continue.
I got dialog popups saying 'locales failed to install' and to do 'dpkg
--configure -a'
Finally, a dialog 'Could not install the upgrades. The upgrade will
abort now. Your system may be in an unusable state.' I am about to press
enter, and expect to have a corrupted machine now.
ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 21 15:09:29 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process
/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.87.30
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.87.30 failed to install/upgrade:
ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg
returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux 2.6.22-15-generic i686
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-package
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package update-manager 1:0.87.30 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage:
SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error
code (1)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259956
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