[Bug 909833] Re: Update Manager failed during update

[Peter Evans]

Reverted to pre update state (using partimage) and attempted to reinstall all the current packages.
this produced an error highlighting a possible circular dependency "pre-depend debconf-2.0 for libpam-modules". Also noticed that can not reinstall debconf and debconf-i18n at the same time as this yields an error "E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'debconf-i18n'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)", though both can be configured separately. This produces the following errors in the apt logs
"Log started: 2011-12-30  16:38:47
(Reading database ... 303717 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace debconf-i18n 1.5.36ubuntu4 (using .../debconf-i18n_1.5.36ubuntu4_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement debconf-i18n ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_assistant_set_page_header_image: assertion `child != NULL' failed at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 27.
Setting up debconf-i18n (1.5.36ubuntu4) ...
(Reading database ... 303717 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace adept 3.0~beta7.2+nmu1ubuntu2 (using .../adept_3.0~beta7.2+nmu1ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement adept ...
Preparing to replace ssl-cert 1.0.28 (using .../ssl-cert_1.0.28_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ssl-cert ...
Preparing to replace synaptic 0.75.1ubuntu2 (using .../synaptic_0.75.1ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement synaptic ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_GB.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_assistant_set_page_header_image: assertion `child != NULL' failed at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 27.
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Setting up adept (3.0~beta7.2+nmu1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up ssl-cert (1.0.28) ...
Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_assistant_set_page_header_image: assertion `child != NULL' failed at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 27.
Setting up synaptic (0.75.1ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Log ended: 2011-12-30  16:38:56
"


Not sure whether either of these issues are related or not.

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Title:
  Update Manager failed during update

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The upgrade has aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state. A
  recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a).

  Please report this bug using the command 'ubuntu-bug update-manager' in a terminal and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report.
  E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: update-manager 1:0.152.25.5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-13.53-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-13-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Dec 29 18:28:48 2011
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-12-29 (0 days ago)

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