Ubuntu
update-manager package

  1. Bug #107188
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 107188

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Dermot (dd2) wrote : Re: [MASTER] [kde] Upgrade tool crashed (edgy -> feisty)

Here's some additional info. which might provide some clues.

I was running Kubuntu 6.10 with all current updates installed on 19-Apr. I was using default KDE theme. I have a Broadcom Wireless card and was using ndiswrapper.

The upgrade proceeded correctly and all 600-800 packages were downloaded and installed. The Upgrade tool then entered the cleanup phase. I received a couple of dialog boxes about overwriting configuration files (one was about /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist). I then received a dialog asking permission to remove obsolete packages which I allowed. I believe (but am not 100% certain) that this went OK and I then got a second dialog asking permission to remove obsolete packages. So I either got one (definitely) or two (probably) dialogs re. obsolete packages and said OK.
I remember that one of the packages to be removed on the last dialog was ndiswrapper-utils. The Upgrade tool then crashed when it ran out of memory with 1.1GB physical memory and 2GB swap on my laptop. No other applications were running except Konsole. I use network-manager to manage my network connections.

After restarting I can see that I have ndiswrapper-utils1.8 amd ndiswrapper1.9 installed so it seems like the Upgrade tool crashed either before or during removing this.

I see that Stephen mentioned bcm43xx-fwcutter. I wonder how many people who have experienced this bug are running Broadcom WiFi cards with fwcutter or ndiswrapper?

Dermot.