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Package: update-manager
Version: 0.42.2ubuntu22-15
Severity: normal
I haven't been able to startup update-manager for a while I decided to finally
investigate a bit.
When starting from the command line I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gksudo update-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 70, in <module>
app = UpdateManager(data_dir)
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line
261, in __init__
dinfo = DistInfo (base_dir=datadir+"channels/")
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/UpdateManager/Common/DistInfo.py",
line 58, in __init__
dist_file = open (dist_fname)
IOError: [Errno 2] Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden:
'/usr/share/update-manager/channels//.info'
So I checked the source on where this failed:
...
if not dist:
pipe = os.popen("lsb_release -i | cut -d : -f 2-")
dist = pipe.read().strip()
pipe.close()
del pipe
...
dist_fname = "%s/%s.info" % (base_dir, dist)
dist_file = open (dist_fname)
...
Then I checked lsb_release:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsb_release -i
Distributor ID:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:
core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:cxx-3.0-ia32:cxx-3.0-noarch:cxx-3.1-ia32:cxx-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.2-ia32:cxx-3.2-noarch:desktop-3.1-ia32:desktop-3.1-noarch:desktop-3.2-ia32:desktop-3.2-noarch:graphics-2.0-ia32:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-ia32:graphics-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.2-ia32:graphics-3.2-noarch:qt4-3.1-ia32:qt4-3.1-noarch
Distributor ID:
Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (lenny)
Release: testing
Codename: lenny
So it /seems/ to actually be a bug in lsb_release but I think it would be great
if update-manager could gracefully handle the error.
(i.e. inform the user that the file it is searching for doesn't exist and it is
exiting, especially if update-manager is started from a panel.)
Cheers,
David
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages update-manager depends on:
ii libgnome2-perl 1.042-1+b1 Perl interface to the GNOME librar
ii lsb-release 3.2-11 Linux Standard Base version report
ii python 2.5.2-1 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-apt 0.7.5 Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii python-glade2 2.12.1-1 GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii python-gnome2 2.22.0-1 Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii python-gnupginterface 0.3.2-9 Python interface to GnuPG (GPG)
ii python-support 0.7.7 automated rebuilding support for P
ii synaptic 0.62 Graphical package manager
update-manager recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 0.68.debian-1
I modified lsb_release to return an empty distributor and then
checked update-manager, which behaved properly. I therefore believe
this has been fixed already upstream.
Best regards, Thibaut.
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