[Bug 1083250] Re: Oneiric to Precise upgrade on i386 fails due to dependency problems

[Brian Murray]

This is actually the dpkg error but using a new release upgrader version
first is the best idea:

Setting up gconf2 (3.2.5-0ubuntu2) ...
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/gnome-terminal.schemas:917: parser error : Specification mandate value for attribute nam
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^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/gnome-terminal.schemas:917: parser error : attributes construct error
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^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/gnome-terminal.schemas:917: parser error : Couldn't find end of Start Tag locale line 916
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^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/gnome-terminal.schemas:917: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
Bytes: 0xF3 0x47 0x00 0x54
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^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/gnome-terminal.schemas:917: parser error : Premature end of data in tag schema line 741
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  ^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/gnome-terminal.schemas:917: parser error : Premature end of data in tag schemalist line 2
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  ^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/gnome-terminal.schemas:917: parser error : Premature end of data in tag gconfschemafile line 1
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  ^
dpkg: error processing gconf2 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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Title:
  Oneiric to Precise upgrade on i386 fails due to dependency problems

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

Bug description:
  Oneiric to Precise desktop upgrade fails complaining the following
  crash

  ERROR got exception '<type 'exceptions.SystemError'>': E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 433, in install_archives
      The first parameter *pm* refers to an object returned by
  AttributeError: 'NonInteractiveInstallProgress' object has no attribute 'startUpdate'

  The following may be of interest

  'Errors were encountered while processing:
   gconf2
   light-themes
   compiz-gnome
   network-manager-gnome
   aisleriot
   compiz-plugins-main-default
   unity
   compiz
   apturl
   nautilus-share
   libcanberra-gtk-module
   unity-common
   libgnomevfs2-common
   libcanberra-gtk3-module
   metacity-common
   libreoffice-gnome
   libgksu2-0
   gnome-media
   libgnome2-common
   ubuntuone-client-gnome
   ubuntu-artwork
   ibus
   unity-lens-applications
   libgnome-media-profiles-3.0-0
   libcompizconfig0
   libgweather-common
   libgnomevfs2-0
   gnome-terminal-data
   ubuntu-desktop
   gksu
   gnome-user-share
   ibus-table
   gstreamer0.10-gconf
   compizconfig-backend-gconf
   libmetacity-private0
   update-manager
   gnome-terminal
   metacity
   libgweather-3-0
   evolution-data-server
   ibus-pinyin
   unity-2d
   libfolks-eds25
   update-notifier
   checkbox-gtk

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