20090205
This week's Hug Day will focus on update-manager!
After you have triaged or fixed a bug put your name in the last column and set the row's background to green by adding lightgreen in the first cell of the column after rowbgcolor=. This will let people know that the bug in that row has been hugged.
Tools
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5-a-day-ing
During hug days you can also do 5-A-Day for this one you can do the following in order to tag your work on the hug day:
- 5-a-day --add-tag hugday-20090205
- Add bugs to 5-a-day as usual
- And when done with hug day run: 5-a-day --remove-tag hugday-20090205
Stock Responses
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the log files from '/var/log/dist-upgrade/' to this bug report as separate attachments? Thanks in advance.
For problem specific Stock Responses see: Bugs/Responses
Tags
Tagging bugs are also a good way to isolate reports, the Update-Manager product currently use these following tags:
Tag |
Use case |
Bugs related to upgrades from Hardy Heron (8.04) to Intrepid Ibex (8.10) |
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Bugs related to upgrading from Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) to Hardy Heron (8.04) |
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Bugs related to upgrading from Feisty Fawn (7.04) to Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) |
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Bugs related to upgrading from Edgy Eft (6.10) to Feisty Fawn (7.04) |
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Bugs related to upgrades from Dapper Drake (6.06) to Hardy Heron (8.04) |
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Bugs related to an upgrade from CD-ROM or DVD media |
If you find a report which match any of those Use cases please add the tag to it.
New Bugs
To mark it off the list you should:
- Verify the bug is still not fixed
Request any needed info, Subscribe, Status to incomplete or
- Set status to Confirmed
Bug |
Subject |
Triager |
Firefox crashes during an update |
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When upgrade manager crashes, upgrade can't be resumed |
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distribution upgrade buggy(apparent hangs) |
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update-manager connects to obsolete proxy |
mangilimic |
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"Updates Available" icon from Tango clashes with "Crash Report Detected" icon |
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Adept dist-update error window is too small |
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Allow delay of update-manager download start to use cheap bandwidth |
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cdrom upgrade crashes in DistUpgradeViewKDE |
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Dapper-to-Hardy upgrade fails on PowerPC (prerequisite dapper-backports missing) |
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Update download speed is incredibly slow for connection |
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update manager does not allow resize of install window |
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Update-manager marks upgrades as completed even if they aren't |
mangilimic |
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E: The package cache file is corrupted E: _cache->open() failed, please report. |
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Error during update-Power Pc (Hardy>Intrepid) |
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update-manager should guest an estimative of upgrade size to prevent running out of free disk |
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update-manager "partial upgrade" should distinguish unmet dependencies from unused dependencies |
mangilimic |
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On dist-upgrade, disable /etc/apt/preferences |
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intrepid RC failed to install |
mangilimic |
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cpu wasted if download speed goes to 0 |
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update-manager via ssh: php.ini and sensors.conf dialogs not readable |
mangilimic |
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8.10 cdrom upgrade either doesn't upgrade or doesn't use the CD-ROM |
mangilimic |
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High CPU load while updating package lists |
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Upgrade Manager crashes during upgrade from Kubuntu Hardy to Intrepid |
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dist-upgrade reinstalls previously removed packages |
mangilimic |
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update.manager unresponsive after installing updates |
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Update manager shows invalid value in "last updated" field if failed to get package list |
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Update breaks sound, network, booting. Live CD works fine. |
mangilimic |
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AMD64 update-manager dependency requirements |
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update-manager crashed with NameError in get_changelog() |
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[kde] upgrade tool crashed |
mangilimic |
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package update-manager 1:0.93.34 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly |
mangilimic |
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Initialization of update-manager fails |
mangilimic |
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update-manager space saving suggestion |
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confusing behavior regarding preferred version |
mangilimic |
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[kde] upgrader crashed with CacheExceptionDpkgInterrupted |
mangilimic |
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update-manager crashed with SIGSEGV in PyErr_SetFromErrno() |
mangilimic |
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upgrade to intrepid: KDE shows white screen |
mangilimic |
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[apport] package update-manager-core failed to install/upgrade: |
mangilimic |
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package update-manager 1:0.87.30 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /tmp/tmpExfjCH/backports/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) |
mangilimic |
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[jaunty] update-manager doesn't honor "hold" flag for packages |
mangilimic |
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Update manager cant handle proxy authentication with dots in login name [8.10] |
mangilimic |
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When a release reaches End-of-Life, update manager should show EoL status and provide a link with working procedures and more information. |
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message about the unavailabillity of the changes list is worded wrongly |
mangilimic |
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_cache->open() failed, please report. |
mangilimic |
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package update-manager 1:0.93.35 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) |
mangilimic |
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upgrade from 7.1 to 8.04LTS |
mangilimic |
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package update-manager 1:0.93.35 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) |
mangilimic |
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taskbar tab pulses unnecessarily |
mangilimic |
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package linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.25 failed to install/upgrade: underprocess post-installation script gav felkod 1 |
mangilimic |
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distribution upgrade via update-manager fails over remote GDM |
mangilimic |
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package update-manager 1:0.93.34 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed |
mangilimic |
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error "could not calculate the upgrade" |
mangilimic |
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Download speed is not correctly displayed (wrong memory address for that variable ?) |
mangilimic |
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url/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/main/binary not found on this server |
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distribution upgrade failed to fetch ktimetracker_4.1.3-0ubuntu1~intrepid2_i386.deb |
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distribution uprade |
mangilimic |
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package update-manager 1:0.97 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) |
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Adept manager cann't update |
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Could not initialize the package information |
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update-manager "crash" while updating |
mangilimic |
Incomplete Bugs
To mark it off the list you should:
Change the bug's status to "Confirmed" or "Triaged" if the reporter replied with enough information or
- Ask a secondary follow up question and subscribe to the bug report
Bug |
Subject |
Triager |
ifrename package not purged |
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Update manager doesn't show packages availible for update. |
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"Size mismatch" error is unhelpful |
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After installing all possible updates update-manager still shows amount of available updates |
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There are a lot of updates, but "Download size" is 0 |
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update-manager should make sure that it is uptodate before a dist-upgrade even if edgy-updates is not available |
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Distribution Upgrade (to Feisty) fails: coreutils can not be installed if there is a different install-info in PATH |
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"Updates available" notification icon appears during OS upgrade |
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Could not install 'debconf' during System upgrade 7.04 to 7.10 |
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Update Manager does not respect gtk-button-images setting |
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Update manager hangs during install from Feisty to Gutsy |
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kubuntu dist upgrade tool crashed |
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Change group right during updrage to Gutsy |
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kubuntu version upgrade failed "Can't install 'kubuntu-desktop'" |
mangilimic |
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update manager cannot update while auto-update is occuring |
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Could not verify integreity of upgrader programme. This application will now exit. Feisty to Gutsy upgrade |
mangilimic |
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Upgrade from gutsy to hardy hangs |
mangilimic |
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Unicode character not correctly displayed |
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re:ubuntu-8.04-beta-alternate-amd64. No upgrade dialog just the file manager showing the disc contents. |
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Update Manager not updating last time checking repo |
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cannot calculate upgrade |
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reboot dialog steals focus on upgrade |
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package update-manager 1:0.81.3 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed |
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[Hardy, Ubuntu-Studio] Upgrade crashes |
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Upgrade from Kubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 removes hostname from /etc/hosts |
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cannot upgrade to 8.04 from 7.1 |
mangilimic |
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[hardy] Update Manager and Synaptic fail to install recommended updates without any explanation |
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Fail to update |
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do-release-upgrade logs a failed usermod near the end |
mrkanister |
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7.10 to 8.04 upgrade fails |
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cdromupgrade |
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Could not calculate upgrade-Can't mark 'kubuntu-desktop' for upgrade |
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E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. |
mangilimic |
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Upgrade problem |
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/media/cdrom-1/cdromupgrade: line 32: 12909 Segmentation fault $TMPDIR/$COD ENAME --cdrom "$cddirname" |
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update-manager crashed with GError in restore_state() |
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package update-manager 1:0.87.30 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Couldn't configure pre-depend cups for cups-pdf, probably a dependency cycle. |
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update-manager layout does not leave adequate room for package short descriptions |
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update manager and synaptic crash |
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package update-manager 1:0.87.24 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed |
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can't use update-manager |
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lack of meaningful dialogue box on a simple space problem when upgrading |
mangilimic |
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Unable to install Intrepid beta (8.10) on a HP Pavillion Notebook |
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Intrepid Ibex fails via update-manager |
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Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10 failed while installing packages |
mangilimic |
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problems updating database if harddisk is suddenly full during installation |
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Upgrade Hash Sum mismatch |
mangilimic |
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Could not initialize the package information |
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dpkg: warning unable to delete old directory `/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/DistUpgrade': Directory not empty |
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update-manager crashes during update |
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users should be added in the fuse group during a gutsy to hardy upgrade |
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Update manager does not report the last update correctly |
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update manager error ubuntu 8.04 |
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Update manager does not install updates |
mangilimic |
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update hoary to intrepid RC failed with dpkg locked |
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menu.lst not updated with update to intrepid |
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Hardy KDE 4 remix to Intrepid is incomplete |
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8.10 update-manager error, ubuntu-minimal missing |
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adept dist-upgrade crashed upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10 |
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dist upgrade fails on xubuntu HH to II |
mangilimic |
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update manager cannot find commercial/binary-amd64/Packages in Meta-index file |
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[Hardy] update-manager can't install 'ubuntu-desktop' |
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Update Manager crashes after selecting check for updates |
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update manager error on upgrade |
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intrepid upgrade 8.04 to 8.10 on KDE fails with following error |
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Package always appears greyed out and partially cut off |
mangilimic |
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8.04 wouldn't let me upgrade through update-manager |
mangilimic |
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applet |
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can't update from ubuntu 6.06 TLS to 8.04 TLS |
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Offline upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 fails (using kubuntu 8.10 alternate iso) |
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crash when updating from gutsy to hardy (ppc) |
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Upgrade problem |
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upgrading feisty failed |
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[jaunty] update-manager crashes with segfault |
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Bad upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 |
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can't upgrade from hardy to interpid with update-manager |
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upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 crashes |
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update-manager crashed with ImportError in <module>() |
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8.10 cdrom upgrade error-could not calc upgrade |
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Distribution update to 8.04 message: no package named `x11-xkb-utils' is installed, cannot configure |
mangilimic |
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upgrade from kubuntu 8.04 to8.10 failed - network problem? |
mangilimic |
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Problem with Update-Manager |
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'update-manager' unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information |
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'update manager' frozen |
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Could not download the upgrades |
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update manager |
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Update Failure |
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>8.10 U-M complained/exited low disk; have 8GB! |
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papercut fails on install of kubuntu 8.10 |
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subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 |
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update manager doesn't download packages any more after upgrade to intrepid |
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update-manager crashed |
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java update cannot install (does it need acceptance of T&C?) |
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Update manager crashes |
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E: the package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened |
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could not initialize the package information |
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Can't update or install software... apt-get update doesn't work either |
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E:The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/bzip2 could not be found. |
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the package "cups" failde to upgrade |
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update manager crashes |
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error during upgrading |
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Update manager won't start. |
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update manager error processing dependencies |
mangilimic |
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update-manager very slow on asus eee box 202 |
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update-manager upgrade from up-to-date 6.06.2 LTS to 8.04.1 LTS fails |
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update-manager |
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An unresolvable problem occurred while initalizing the package information. |
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Confirmed Bugs
To mark it off the list you should:
- Verify the bug is still not fixed
- Request any needed info, Subscribe, Status to incomplete or
Set status to triaged UbuntuBugControl
Bug |
Subject |
Triager |
Humanized changelog and news after a dist-upgrade |
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"Updates available" popup should hide when update-manager starts |
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Should autodetect CD insertion |
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'Downloading package information' and 'building dependency tree' progress dialogs request focus too often |
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Add "IfInstalled: foo Install: bar" to DistUpgrade.cfg (was: Upgrade to dapper breaks mp3 playback) |
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[Dist-upgrader] Window too big in 800x600 |
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update-manager improve: update repositories information |
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update-manager should have per-package changelog locations (was: uses changelogs.ubuntu.com for all packages) |
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[dist-upgrader] User should be prompted to update *before* the upgrade process starts |
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could not calculate upgrade with old kernel package installed |
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Fatal error on upgrade - NoSectionError Distro |
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[dist-upgrader] When doing a dist-upgrade the upgrade tool should give the option to remove packages not being maintained in main any more |
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Shows pinned packages as available to update |
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Synaptic won't add Ubuntu CD to the repositories - freezes |
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Failing to fetch some packages should display a better/nicer error message |
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bogus pluralization of singular nouns |
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On upgrading to Edgy from Dapper, confusing kernel selection |
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Update waits indefinitely for user input (on terminal/debconf/conffile prompts) |
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RFE: a bit more flexibility in handling modified files (conffile prompt) |
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u-m GUI shows no feedback when mirrors are slow, timing out. |
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crashed in saveDistUpgrade |
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cancelling software update install causes a rescan and forgets my selection |
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Update manager Instruction cannot be carried out |
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Clickable URLs need context menu |
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RFE: ask all config-file questions that the start or end of the upgrade |
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[patch] Upgrade tool crashed with " Cannot allocate memory" |
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system-config-printer adds menu item the same as gnome-cups-manager's menu item |
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Upgrade Tool Crashed |
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better mirror support |
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CD-based upgrade from Edgy to Feisty fails on bad CD burns |
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Update-manager needs help info when terminating on wrong repositories and generally deal better with incorrect sources.list data |
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upgrade error from edgy server to feisty server becasue invoke-rc.d fails at "at" |
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update-manager becomes unresponsive because it cannot download ReleaseAnnouncement (needs sensible timeout) |
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run apt-get autoclean after upgrade |
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X fails after Fiesty install on AMD64 w/ATI binary drivers |
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ValueError: too many values to unpack (DistUpgradeControler.py stack trace) |
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dapper to gutsy(+1): mozilla transition tweaks needed |
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Update to feisty failed on 3 different computers |
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Upgrade Manager failed from 6.10 to 7.04 |
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update-manager (and others) should lower their priority when working |
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update manager is showing "updates available" but no update is available (because prefer version from Feisty) |
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update-manager bug when loading Changes is slow |
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Broken packages result in meaningless error message |
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crash in a update-manager edgy->feisty |
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update-manager crashed with AssertionError in saveDistUpgrade() |
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Prerequisites download fails if gpg authentication fails on over-aggressive caches |
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doesn't state why updates are necessary |
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Could not calculate the upgrade |
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[kde] kde-tempdir removes all -x bits and that breaks the custom invoke-rc.d that is used during the upgrade (was: upgrade fails because invoke-rc.d fails) |
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upgrade from feisty to gutsy beta errors |
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too many annoying interruptions during distribution upgrade |
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If update-manager -d fails, you can't try again |
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kubuntu adept_manager --version-upgrade to 7.10 has some confusing dialog messages. |
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Cancelling download incorrectly results in error message |
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Prompt temporary move /var/cache/apt to other partition for distribution upgrade |
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says no update available in the middle of the upgrade to gutsy RC when preferences define a low priority for new release |
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Download speed displayed as 'unknown' in update manager for the first seconds |
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Upgrade to gutsy beta crashes because of insufficient disc space |
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use monospace font in release notes window |
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7.04->7.10 "Upgrade" fails: "Getting upgrade prerequisites failed" |
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dist upgrade tool 7.10 gutsy freezes |
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Transition from feisty-commercial to partner incorrect? (was: Error during update) |
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Visual indication when final release comes out |
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[kde] RuntimeError: underlying C/C++ object has been deleted (was: Upgrade tool crashed Kubuntu Feisty to Gutsy) |
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[kde] copy XAUTHORITY may fail and crashes the upgrader (was: Upgrade tool crashed when upgrading 7.04 -> 7.10) |
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Dist upgrade failed while running update-initramfs |
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Error during update |
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"Ubuntu has some information for you." |
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pre-set PYTHONPATH breaks major upgrade |
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DVD should be recognized as upgrade volume |
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improve download cancel handling |
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update-manager crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_prepare() |
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[wishlist] Update-manager should allow to ignore misc updates |
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package libapache2-mod-php5 5.2.3-1ubuntu6 failed to install/upgrade: |
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Partial french translation of dist upgrade time estimate |
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update-manager does not correctly interpret gnome proxy configuration [gutsy] |
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update-manager prevents users from seeing&recording errors |
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Packages failed to install hardy |
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update-manager shows wrong changelog |
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update manager does not deal with packages in "reinstreq" state |
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Update removes vital media codex. |
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"distribution upgrade" hangs during update to hardy |
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Server upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 fails |
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policykit integration missing |
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[Patch] RGBA support in update-manager |
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[Wishlist] Include limit-rate bandwidth option |
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update-manager could not upgrade...."release-upgrader-dpkg" untrusted |
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dist-upgrade crashes while upgrading from 7.04 to 7.10 |
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Shouldn't override the font in the terminal widget |
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ubuntu incorrectly believes I enjoy staring at progress bars |
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Pinned hardy repository causes update-manger to fail but shows no error message |
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The package information was last updated 1 days ago |
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bzr ppas block upgrade-manager partial upgrade |
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BIOS beep occurs when clicking in lower half for the first time |
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update-manager shouldn't use modal dialogs |
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[kde] Distupgrade from Gutsy to Hardy (beta) fails |
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Gutsy->Hardy Upgrade: "unresolvable problem occurred" |
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Upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 stops on 2nd step (Modifying the software channels) |
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Many errors installing packages during upgrading to 8.04 |
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Partition not mounted after Gutsy to Hardy upgrade |
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Release upgrade procedure "sucks" (from Gutsy to Hardy) |
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[Dist Upgrade] Enhancement: user-friendly error reporting? |
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IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe |
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Failed to upgrade (7.10->8.04) |
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Update-manager requires connectivity to changelog.ubuntu.com - mirrors alone aren't sufficient |
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kubuntu - Upgrade Tool Crashed: CacheExceptionDpkgInterrupted |
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update-manager gives fixed-size window for customised configuration diff |
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Icons in Update Manager |
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update-manager starts gnome-power-manager when it's not wanted |
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update manager lines are unreadable |
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interrupted upgrade should automatically resume |
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update manager could warn of possible need to restart before installing |
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release upgrade from dapper to hardy possibly due to network error |
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Detect internet connection before trying to check for updates |
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Notify user if a program is in use that has been removed from the repositories |
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dapper to hardy: could not calculate the upgrade |
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Kubuntu 8.04 amd64 upgrade to 8.10 fails. Upgrade tool exits without messages. |
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update-manager crashed with SIGSEGV |
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Synaptic, update-manager, and apt-get should share proxy settings |
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Update manager says nothing about apt-listbugs prompt |
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[Intrepid, hardy] security updates aren't enabled by default when installing without internet connection |
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free disk space check could actually carry out suggested ways to clear space |
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update-manager crashed with SIGSEGV in PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilenameObject() |
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update-manager disables back button when managing conffiles |
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intrepid->jaunty, openssl-blacklist got removed |
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Progress
More Bugs
This list is just a nibble of the bigger picture.
UbuntuBugDay/20090205 (last edited 2009-02-12 18:52:54 by a89-182-211-204)