Further messing about shows that if I forcibly chmod extended_states to allow a+rw then all seems well.
This bug seems to be that if aptitude is run as root from the command line, it creates extended_states in such a way that update-manager cannot access it. -- [feisty] [apt] command line apt-get/aptitude breaks update-manager https://launchpad.net/bugs/74190 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
