[Bug 602497] [NEW] KPackageKit says, "A problem that we were not expecting has occurred."

[Jeffrey W. Borden]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: kpackagekit

First security upgrade/bug fix (libc and flashplayer, IIRC) following
upgrade to lucid

KPackageKit said:

A problem that we were not expecting has occurred.
Please report this bug with the error description.

Error Type: 
Error Value: installArchives() failed
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2216, in 
main()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2213, in main
run(args, options.single)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2175, in run
backend.dispatcher(args)
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 710, in dispatcher
self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 657, in dispatch_command
self.update_packages(only_trusted, package_ids)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 202, in _locked_cache
func(*args, **kwargs)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1230, in update_packages
self._commit_changes()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1842, in _commit_changes
PackageKitInstallProgress(self, install_range))
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/deprecation.py, line 103, in deprecated_function
return func(*args, **kwds)
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/cache.py, line 381, in commit
raise SystemError("installArchives() failed")


====================
~$ lsb_release -rd
Description:    Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release:        10.04

~$ apt-cache policy kpackagekit
kpackagekit:
  Installed: 0.5.4-0ubuntu4.3
  Candidate: 0.5.4-0ubuntu4.3
  Version table:
 *** 0.5.4-0ubuntu4.3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.5.4-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

What I expected to happen"  System update/upgrade would go cleanly.
What happened:  KPackageKit downloaded packages and gave me this error.  I completed package installation in Synaptic.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: kpackagekit 0.5.4-0ubuntu4.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jul  6 17:14:24 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kpackagekit

** Affects: kpackagekit (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid

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KPackageKit says, "A problem that we were not expecting has occurred."
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