20130328

This week's Hug Day will focus on update-manager!

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Stock Responses

For problem specific Stock Responses see: Bugs/Responses

° 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

1159026

update-manager needs 3 times a retry before it knows that it is connected to internet

Marconi Fabio

1158945

Update Manager stays in rolled up state

Marconi Fabio

1158210

can't upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04.2, "could not calculate the upgrade"

Marconi Fabio

1157842

update-manager crashed with account-plugin-identica in _run_in_dialog(): account-plugin-twitter: account-plugin-windows-live: unity-webapps-common:

Marconi Fabio

1157054

When /boot is running out of space, Ubunutu shall provide a clear message and an easy solution

Marconi Fabio

1156442

update-manager crashed with SIGSEGV

Marconi Fabio

1156362

Impossible d'installer « xubuntu-desktop »

1156194

update-manager still informs that Ubuntu12.10 is beta(5 month after final)

1156122

Upgrade from 10.04 failed on PowerBook G4

1155994

Failed to download repository information

1153569

"Failed to download repository information" alert is unattractive

1153196

无法计算升级

WalterGarciaFontes

1152460

E:Error, pkgProblemResolver

1150813

upgrade information not found

1148049

update-manager crashed with skype in _run_in_dialog(): Depends: skype-bin but it is a virtual package

1142086

update fails on lucid to precise - xubuntu - many errors

1137290

Attempting to upgrade to Ubuntu version 11.10 using Update Manager fails with error "essential package 'ubuntu-minimal' can not be found anymore"

1133390

update manager failure

1133377

Update Manager can't perform 'check' because of repository issue

1132472

Update-manager list earlier changes for boost packages before the relevant change for the update in question

1132232

cannot upgrade to newer version of unbuntu

1132133

"could not calculate the uprade" when transitioning to latest version of ubuntu

1132117

The button in upper RH corner is red and indicates restart to install up dates. I restart and the condition remains the same.

1131029

update manager crashes on searching new packages

1130948

the package "ubuntu-minimal" is missing when I try to upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10

1130897

MythBuntu update-manager comes up in the foreground even when configured to display under MythTV

1130570

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xbb' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

1130426

update-manager unresolvable problem 'Could not initialize the package information' (libqtcore4:i386)

1130316

cd upgrade 10.04 i386 to 12.04.2 AMD64 failed

1129418

Update Manager fails to resolve dependencies

1126906

404 Not Found when displaying Raring release notes upon upgrade

1126234

Additional Drivers won't show option to install proper nvidia drivers

1125534

Always shows update available for a held package, even when version number is the same

1125412

"Package does not exist" error is unhelpful for updates

1123346

Notification frequency for "other updates" in Update manager is not obeyed

1222920

An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade: 软件包“ubuntu-desktop-nanjing-natty”标记为可移除,但它已在移除黑名单中

119711

The dialog "The computer needs to restart to...." leads to restarting the system inadvertently

1119247

"This requires installing packages from unauthenticated sources" warning not useful

1119107

An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade

1116692

Can't update from 10.04 to 12.04

1115594

software-center crashes after skype install, error message during install

WalterGarciaFontes

1112843

update-manager crashed

WalterGarciaFontes

1112142

update-manager crashed with libc-bin in _run_in_dialog()

WalterGarciaFontes

1111524

Upgrading to Ubuntu LTS version 12.4.1 giving this error.

WalterGarciaFontes

1110876

Error message printed to screen; program hangs

1110085

update-manager does not indicate when user feedback is required

1109833

UpdateManager panel is blank

WalterGarciaFontes

1104729

do-release-upgrade assumes presense of pci bus (x86-centric)

1103615

Ubuntu 11.10 do-release-upgrade won't upgrade

WalterGarciaFontes

° Oh! Grannies !!!

To mark it off the list you should:

  • Verify that they are fixed, elsewhere leave it in peace...

Bug

Subject

Triager

111487

update-manager suspends while performing dist-upgrade

109795

run apt-get autoclean after upgrade

107944

Unusable time remaining calculation in Kubuntu Distribuiton Upgrade

107000

update-manager should make sure that it is uptodate before a dist-upgrade even if edgy-updates is not available

106529

update-manager loses the selection

109331

Suggestions for upgrade

90105

RFE: permanent deselection of updates until a new release

89284

Group packages in the list

86028

RFE: ask all config-file questions at the start or end of the upgrade

81004

third party repository warning should be smarter

75832

Deadlock opportunity in gpg interaction code

68453

u-m GUI shows no feedback when mirrors are slow, timing out.

67382

RFE: a bit more flexibility in handling modified files (conffile prompt)

35836

Hold packages

226444

package update-manager 1:0.87.24 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

223826

[Dist Upgrade] Enhancement: user-friendly error reporting?

222604

package update-manager 1:0.87.24 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

219951

silent fetch failure if proxy mis-configured

217936

Allow delay of update-manager download start to use cheap bandwidth

215236

aborted do-release-upgrade leaves sources.list.distUpgrade dropping

213805

BIOS beep occurs when clicking in lower half for the first time

211539

update-manager Missing "About" Dialog Box

203659

Pinned hardy repository causes update-manger to fail but shows no error message

199986

Shouldn't override the font in the terminal widget

199669

Tray notification doesn't disappear when the Update Manager starts

197581

update-manager crashed with RuntimeError in <module>() : RuntimeError: could not open display.It should display a warning when $DISPLAY is not set.

193558

[Wishlist] Include limit-rate bandwidth option

192204

Error message on unmet dependencies during update should be improved

189406

Update Manager doesn't display package versions anymore

189056

Update tool failed to upgrade 915resolution

188797

version upgrade fails without a warning if a package is kept

180797

Update removes vital media codex.

178905

update manager does not deal with packages in "reinstreq" state

° 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

1091591

Could not calculate the upgrade

1130816

Не удалось установить «ubuntu-desktop»

1126896

12.04 to 12.10 upgrade failed

° Confirmed Bugs

  • Verify the bug is still not fixed
  • Request any needed info, Subscribe, Status to incomplete or
  • Set status to triaged UbuntuBugControl

Bug

Subject

Triager

1142400

update-manager crashed with UnboundLocalError in _get_application_for_package(): local variable 'installed_file' referenced before assignment

1138070

update-manager crashed with SIGABRT in assert_fail_base()

1131958

update-manager crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in localeconv(): 'locale' codec can't decode byte 0xd1 in position 0: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character

1112336

held packages may cause "unresolvable problem" error on upgrade. no comprehensive hint given.

1099760

"Broken unity: Depends on compiz-core-abiversion-20120927" causing quantal to raring desktop upgrade failures

1099274

update-manager crashed with TypeError in refresh_cache(): start_error() missing 1 required positional argument: 'desc'

1077889

update-manager crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance()

1095453

Changing download servers and updating crashes update-manager

UbuntuBugDay/20130328 (last edited 2013-03-28 21:23:43 by walter-garcia)