[Bug 376948] Re: update-manager wrongly requires the presence of /home

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[Expired for update-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity
for 60 days.]

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  update-manager wrongly requires the presence of /home

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

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager-core

  Release:        9.04
  apt-cache policy update-manager-core
  update-manager-core:
    Installed: 1:0.111.9
    Candidate: 1:0.111.9
    Version table:
   *** 1:0.111.9 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:0.111.7 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

  When I start update-manager, and press the Install updates button, an error message is shown in in the shell complaining about not finding /home.
  The reason is that I have no /home directory, that is mounted only via autofs, but not in this network where my computer was connected.

  The solution was to patch /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-
  packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py (which is a symlink to
  ../../../../share/pyshared/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py) like this:

  #        for d in ["/","/usr","/var","/boot", archivedir, aufs_rw_dir, "/home"]:
          for d in ["/","/usr","/var","/boot", archivedir, aufs_rw_dir]:

  After that, update worked fine.

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