[Bug 902601] Re: update manager crashes

[zikaface]

I'm getting this on first boot:
[code]:~$ update-manager 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 116, in <module>
    app.main(options)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 1220, in main
    self.check_metarelease()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 1207, in check_metarelease
    self.options.use_proposed)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/UpdateManager/MetaReleaseGObject.py", line 37, in __init__
    MetaReleaseCore.__init__(self, useDevelopmentRelease, useProposed)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py", line 71, in __init__
    self.current_dist_name = get_dist()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/UpdateManager/Core/utils.py", line 184, in get_dist
    p = Popen(["lsb_release","-c","-s"],stdout=PIPE)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1249, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory[/code]

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Title:
  update manager crashes

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Update manager freezes when trying to do updates. And then whole
  system locks up, and have to do hard reboot. Doing sudo apt-get
  upgrade however, works fine.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.155.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-3.9-generic 3.2.0-rc4
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-3-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Dec 10 14:10:47 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111129.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-12-10 (0 days ago)

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