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ubuntustudio-menu package

package update-manager 1:0.93.32 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Bug #291234 reported by jemtallon on 2008-10-30

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #276503: package ubuntustudio-menu 0.10 failed to install/upgrade: there is no script in the new version of the package - giving up. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubuntustudio-menu (Ubuntu)	Triaged	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

Upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10. Received errors about ubuntustudio packages and this error. When the upgrade finished, I received an error stating "Could not install the upgrades" and that a recovery will run.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Package: update-manager 1:0.93.32
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.93.32 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

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jemtallon (jemtallon) wrote on 2008-10-30:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (4.7 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (49.6 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (9.7 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz Edit (52.3 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2008-10-31:

THanks for your bugreport.

Here is what is causing the error:

Unpacking replacement ubuntustudio-menu ...
all.deb) ...
Removing `diversion of /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu to /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu.orig by ubuntustudio-menu'
dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu' with
different file `/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu.orig', not allowed
dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ubuntustudio-menu_0.11_all.deb (--unpack):
there is no script in the new version of the package - giving up