Well, the program can at least give up gracefully in that scenario, rather than crashing.
There have been occasions in the past where update-manager apparently ran multiple times without homedir access, and I would come back to my workstation in the morning and find literally dozens of Apport dialogs for u-m sitting on top of one another. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/704045 Title: check-new-release-gtk crashed with IOError in _buildMetaReleaseFile() when homedir is not writable. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
