Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: update-manager
Hello,
There is an inconsistence behaviour in update-manager together with
network-manager integration.
Situation:
I use a internetconnection via Blueman-Manager and gnome-ppp (with wvdial in
background) cause the combination of gnome-bluetooth and Network-Manager wont
work with my mobile cause of lacks in the ability of setting "special"
AT-Commands to establish the connection.
This works good. (It would be nicer than I could use the standard preferred way
but ok...)
If I start the Update-Manager, there is a hint notice that update could
be failed cause of non-existing Internet-Connection (Network-Manager
cant recognize the still esablished connection)
I can still check for updates (see picture "Update with Update-Manager
w. Desc.png")
After check for Updates, downloading of Update-Descriptions will be
blocked cause of the non-detected Connection. Connection is still alive.
(See "Update-Manager Description Download Failure w. Desc.png")
Downloading of the Updates works pretty good. (See "Upgrade w. Update-
Manager w. Desc.png")
So the Solution to download the update-descriptions would be in stopping the
whole Network-Manager service (with "$>sudo service network-manager stop" on
terminal.
which also shutdown all other services provide by Network-Manager like W-LAN /
DSL-Connections.
This is not really a great solution, a better approach should be either:
- (the best one) Network-Manager checks with a ping or a DNS-check if there is
a working Network-Connection
or
- The Integration of the Network-Detection should only WARN, but NOT BLOCK any
download (if its already do, when downloading the Updates, this behaviour
should be also used by the download of the descriptions.)
By the way, this behaviour I still see in evolution too, Evolution went into
OFFLINE-Mode if there is not a Connection handled / detected byNetwork-Manager.
Worst of this, OFFLINE-Mode in Evolution cant be switched to ONLINE until the
Network-Manager service is stopped.
This is a perfect bug for the "100 papercuts" :-D A small bug but great
for affecting different project / packages.
Kind regards,
jiweigert
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.146.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 30 08:11:48 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-22 (7 days ago)
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 natty
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Title:
Inconsistency in Usability of Update-Manager
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