[Bug 884625] Re: Upgrade from Natty to Oneiric failed: Error in function pulse

[Andrew McMillan]

As a further couple of data points, I re-tried the upgrade three more
times and received this error on two more occasions.

On all three failures it was in the process of downloading a very large
package - blobwars-data the first time 44MB of 66MB downloaded.  The
second time it was downloading lilypond-doc and was at around 96MB of
112MB or so.  The third one waswesnoth-1.8-music and it was at 39MB of
48 or so.  This was upgrading my son's PC, hence he has all the games
and graphical things you could imagine.

We don't have a fast connection here, so it can take quite a while to
download these things, making me wonder if this is a timeout that's set
too short.

It's incredibly frustrating, also, that even if it's already downloaded
600MB of the upgrade, if you quit and start again it starts right back
at the beginning of the download.  If apt-get doesn't do that I can't
quite see why update-manager doesn't save those things in a cache as
well.

Thanks,
Andrew McMillan

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Title:
  Upgrade from Natty to Oneiric failed: Error in function pulse

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

Bug description:
  37% [1589 blobwars-data 46.1 MB/66.7 MB 69%]
  Error in function pulse

  
  A fatal error occurred 

  Please report this as a bug and include the files 
  /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log and /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log in 
  your report. The upgrade has aborted. 
  Your original sources.list was saved in 
  /etc/apt/sources.list.distUpgrade. 

  Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/tmp/update-manager-xZun7L/DistUpgradeViewText.py", line 41, in 
  pulse 
  apt.progress.text.AcquireProgress.pulse(self, owner) 

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/progress/text.py", line 
  166, in pulse 
  apt_pkg.time_to_str(eta)) 

  OverflowError: signed integer is less than minimum 
  === Command terminated with exit status 1 (Tue Nov  1 17:35:13 2011) ===

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