This is probably caused by my use of etckeeper with VCS="git". It complains about user.name/user.email being not set (despite me having them in my ~/.gitconfig and also in /root/.gitconfig for good measure and cron scripts).
My main problem with update-manager is that it doesn't provide any information about the failure it reports. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1186494 Title: useless error message "package operation failed" on every update To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1186494/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
