Addition to previous post: I checked term.log _before_ I clicked close, it was zero length then as well.
Richard's workaround worked fine. Even after closing the update-manager, warnings about packages not installed due to failed dependencies kept coming up until I killed the corresponding python processes. Then everything worked fine, except for the -386 kernel waiting for the root filesystem indefinitely. -generic worked, and this is probably unrelated. So, here's a short wrap-up of the workaround process, starting from when you get the offending message (preceding # means no shell input): #close the error window; click the close button on the update-manager window and confirm. more error windows might pop up ps ax #show all processes #there will be one or more "python /tmp/*"-like processes. kill all of them. cd /var/cache/apt/archives sudo dpkg -i libgcc1_* libc6_* sudo dpkg -i debconf* liblocale-gettext-perl_* perl-base_* apt-get -f install kdesu "adept_manager --dist-upgrade-devel" # wait for it to finish, reboot when requested, wait for fsck and automatic second reboot, enjoy 8.04! # if needed choose "generic" kernel -- kubuntu Hardy Heron could not install libc6 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205079 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
