Well, I had attached the tgz of the dir above, but oh, well... BTW, I got on with it by copying home to an external HD, and doing a clean install.
** Attachment added: "apt.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10558008/apt.log -- package update-manager 1:0.81 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154293 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs