Re: [Bug 127263] Re: update-manager cannot find meta-release info

2007-09-20 Thread phix
I can confirm this output (notably failing to initialize dbus, and the NameErrors --phix On 9/20/07, ThinkpadUBUNTU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am afraid none of the above allowed the upgrade to run on my system - here is the output [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo touch -t 19700101

Re: [Bug 127263] Re: update-manager cannot find meta-release info

2007-09-10 Thread ysth
On Mon, September 10, 2007 4:07 am, Michael Vogt wrote: I put packages online at: deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~mvo/update-manager / Please give them a go. Thanks, Thank *you*. Seems to work just great, except that running sudo update-manager -d, I needed to hit Check before the new

Re: [Bug 127263] Re: update-manager cannot find meta-release info

2007-09-07 Thread Will Newton
Should we be checking for corrupt meta release info as well as 0 length files here? Is it that bad to download the meta release file every time when -d is passed? On 9/7/07, schnollk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to report what happend here[1]: 1. procedure as suggested a

Re: [Bug 127263] Re: update-manager cannot find meta-release info

2007-09-06 Thread ysth
On Thu, September 6, 2007 4:33 pm, Anders wrote: I tried $ sudo touch -t 19700101 /var/lib/update-manager/meta-release $ update-manager -d to no avail. Try using sudo for both commands. Or try: $ rm ~/.update-manager-core/meta-release $ update-manager -d -- update-manager cannot find

Re: [Bug 127263] Re: update-manager cannot find meta-release info

2007-08-28 Thread ysth
On Tue, August 28, 2007 3:17 am, Martin Pool wrote: The recipe give by Daniel Moyne of just touching the file to the epoch does not work for me, neither does the one from ysth. Touching the file may not work if you don't sudo update-manager. I'd like to know what you tried. mvo's patch does

Re: [Bug 127263] Re: update-manager cannot find meta-release info

2007-08-27 Thread Bruce Cowan
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 18:22 +, brettalton wrote: Has the patch been uploaded to the repositories? I'm not sure how to merg a .diff file. sudo patch /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py u-m.diff should do it (I hope). -- Bruce Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --