[Bug 988795] [NEW] update-manager requests curses feedback in folded terminal window

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Public bug reported:

When doing a graphical upgrade from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04beta3 using
`sudo update-manager -d`, the processed seemed to hang quite early in
the package installation. It appeared that glibc required user
interaction (asking what services to restart after the upgrade), but
that the debconf Dialog backend was used. With the terminal window
folded by default, it took quite a while to realise that there was no
progress.

Relevant messages:
  debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome
  debconf: (Unable to load Gtk -- is libgtk2-perl installed?)
  debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
libgtk2-perl 2:1.223-1build2 is installed though.

It's a little hard to reproduce this bug (I've already upgraded), or
else I'd have tried to run update-manager as normal user to check if
that would matter.

** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: dist-upgrade oneiric2precise

** Tags added: dist-upgrade oneiric2precise

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Title:
  update-manager requests curses feedback in folded terminal window

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

Bug description:
  When doing a graphical upgrade from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04beta3 using
  `sudo update-manager -d`, the processed seemed to hang quite early in
  the package installation. It appeared that glibc required user
  interaction (asking what services to restart after the upgrade), but
  that the debconf Dialog backend was used. With the terminal window
  folded by default, it took quite a while to realise that there was no
  progress.

  Relevant messages:
    debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome
    debconf: (Unable to load Gtk -- is libgtk2-perl installed?)
    debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
  libgtk2-perl 2:1.223-1build2 is installed though.

  It's a little hard to reproduce this bug (I've already upgraded), or
  else I'd have tried to run update-manager as normal user to check if
  that would matter.

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