On Feb 2, 2008 10:59 PM, scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try opening a terminal and typing 'gksu synaptic' or 'gksu update-manager'.
>
> Regards,
> Scott
>

The "administrative tasks" password box comes up and accepts the
password.  Then update manager gui appears showing 32 updates.
However the terminal shows:

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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gksu update-manager
warning: could not initiate dbus
Perhaps the problem is that you attempted to use GConf from two
machines at once, and ORBit still has its default configuration that
prevents remote CORBA connections - put "ORBIIOPIPv4=1" in
/etc/orbitrc. As always, check the user.* syslog for details on
problems gconfd encountered. There can only be one gconfd per home
directory, and it must own a lockfile in ~/.gconfd and also lockfiles
in individual storage locations such as ~/.gconf
current dist not found in meta-release file
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Terminal output from attempting to close the update manager:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py",
line 357, in <lambda>
    self.button_close.connect("clicked", lambda w: self.exit())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py",
line 830, in exit
    self.save_state()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py",
line 838, in save_state
    gconf.VALUE_INT, gconf.VALUE_INT, x, y)
gobject.GError: No database available to save your configuration:
Unable to store a value at key '/apps/update-manager/window_size', as
the configuration server has no writable databases. There are some
common causes of this problem: 1) your configuration path file
/etc/gconf/2/path doesn't contain any databases or wasn't found 2)
somehow we mistakenly created two gconfd processes 3) your operating
system is misconfigured so NFS file locking doesn't work in your home
directory or 4) your NFS client machine crashed and didn't properly
notify the server on reboot that file locks should be dropped. If you
have two gconfd processes (or had two at the time the second was
launched), logging out, killing all copies of gconfd, and logging back
in may help. If you have stale locks, remove ~/.gconf*/*lock. Perhaps
the problem is that you attempted to use GConf from two machines at
once, and ORBit still has its default configuration that prevents
remote CORBA connections - put "ORBIIOPIPv4=1" in /etc/orbitrc. As
always, check the user.* syslog for details on problems gconfd
encountered. There can only be one gconfd per home directory, and it
must own a lockfile in ~/.gconfd and also lockfiles in individual
storage locations such as ~/.gconf
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A crash report warning is issued - however it can't be reported:

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Problem in update-manager
The problem cannot be reported:
You have some obsolete package versions installed.
Please upgrade the following packages and check if
the problem still occurs:
libgcc1, xinit, cpp-4.2, libffi4, libxml2, libsasl2-2,
coreutils, libsasl2-modules, gcc-4.2-base, libstdc++6
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This was a clean install in the manner I believed the average
user would do.  Use entire disk, allow Ubuntu to partition,
everything very basic.

hth
-rich

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