this is happening to me with Lubuntu 12.10. Update manager runs in the background & alerts each week of updates.
I usually select 'remind me later'. Then when I run Synaptic etc to add specific packages there is a crash. It is then impossible to run the software updater to perform the 'pending upgrades', or Synaptic to add / remove packages. I found a work-around from 'actionparsnip' that is a script to download from dropbox, purging apt-cache etc; will post a link. Problem with this is that it seem to download a huge amount of data due to all packages being refreshed / re-fetched. 2nd time the crash occurred, the 'crash log' (which apport has sent to 'Ubuntu' automatically) gave me this specific bug reference. Why is it occurring ? (I have another machine running Ubuntu 11.10 that has never exhibited this). How to: - recover without having to refresh all packages = big download.. - stop it happening on the Lubuntu machine (pending 'proper' fix). thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1063589 Title: update-manager crashed with dbus.exceptions.DBusException in call_blocking(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut: Activation of org.debian.apt timed out To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1063589/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
