Bug 352619 - update fails: An error occured while applying changes
Summary: update fails: An error occured while applying changes
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Discover
Classification: Applications
Component: Updates (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jonathan Thomas
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2015-09-12 15:19 UTC by Peter Eastwick
Modified: 2016-09-14 10:15 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Picture of error message window (33.22 KB, image/png)
2015-12-16 10:09 UTC, Seppo
Details
Terminal printout of upgrade (2.98 KB, text/plain)
2015-12-16 10:10 UTC, Seppo
Details

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Description Peter Eastwick 2015-09-12 15:19:31 UTC
Whenever I want to update my packages I receive the following error message:
"An error occurred while applying changes:"

This problem exists only since a few days, before that I had no problems.
When I click on "Details" no further details on the error message are shown

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open Muon Update Manager
2.Check for Updates 
3.Install --> BOOM FAIL
Comment 1 Peter Eastwick 2015-09-12 15:21:00 UTC
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Comment 2 Peter Eastwick 2015-09-12 19:28:45 UTC
maybe the following info is helpful too. when I run muon-updater from the console I observe the following error message:
found error while replying QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs", "")
Comment 3 Seppo 2015-12-16 10:09:10 UTC
Created attachment 96120 [details]
Picture of error message window
Comment 4 Seppo 2015-12-16 10:10:28 UTC
Created attachment 96121 [details]
Terminal printout of upgrade
Comment 5 Seppo 2015-12-16 10:13:05 UTC
I have 2 Kubuntu machines, up to date version 15.10.
Both has same error (see attached picture) every time they are updated with Muon, or if I try to install or remove packages with Muon Discover. The error message is always the same.
Muon ver: 5.4.2

I run upgrade also from treminal.  Listing of the terminal printout is attached.
Comment 6 Seppo 2016-03-02 14:43:16 UTC
I find out that:
both of my machines where clean install, ie. in the installation process two disk partition were made. First one only 243MB (the one where system files are stored). During system update process Muon leaves old system files on the disk. After few system updates system disk becomes to full and updates are no longer possible.
I used command:   sudo apt-get autoremove -f    to get more disk space.

In my opinion, Muon should remove old, unnecessary, files from disk during update process.
Comment 7 Aleix Pol 2016-09-14 10:15:16 UTC
Looks like a packaging issue in the distribution.