[Bug 784130] Re: check-new-release-gtk crashed with GError in on_button_dont_upgrade_clicked()

[Daniel Richard G.]

It's not clear that there is anything wrong with gconf itself (no
lockfiles are present, and e.g. "gconftool -R /" prints out numerous
settings and exits with status 0), though I'm now working on a Natty
system with the same home directory.

Aside from tweaking the program to handle this error case more
gracefully, however, I think it would be sensible to save the user's
upgrade decision in ~/.config/update-notifier/ (a directory which exists
on my system, albeit empty) rather than rely on the GConf
infrastructure. In my case, because the program was unable to save my
"Don't upgrade" choice, the window kept popping up again and again
throughout the day, causing great annoyance.

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Title:
  check-new-release-gtk crashed with GError in
  on_button_dont_upgrade_clicked()

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

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  I just wanted the damn window to go away!

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: update-manager 1:0.142.23
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue May 17 12:35:05 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release-gtk
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release-gtk
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release-gtk']
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  Title: check-new-release-gtk crashed with GError in on_button_dont_upgrade_clicked()
  Traceback:
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release-gtk", line 106, in on_button_dont_upgrade_clicked
       self.new_dist.name)
   GError: No database available to save your configuration: Unable to store a value at key '/apps/update-manager/check_new_release_ignore', 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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