[Bug 1067992] Re: update-manager crashes when trying to upgrade to quantal (Gtk couldn't be initialized)

[Jack Choy]

I installed 12.04.1 less than a month ago and 12.10 comes out, so I
decide to upgrade and was hit with this bug, even after updating all the
12.04 packages and restarting the system.

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Title:
  update-manager crashes when trying to upgrade to quantal (Gtk couldn't
  be initialized)

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

Bug description:
  see the output I get when I'm trying to upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10:

  $ update-manager -d
  Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
  authenticate 'quantal.tar.gz' against 'quantal.tar.gz.gpg' 
  extracting 'quantal.tar.gz'
  can't load DistUpgradeViewGtk3 (Gtk couldn't be initialized)
  /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion `g_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed
    import gobject._gobject
  /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:40: Warning: specified class size for type `PyGtkGenericCellRenderer' is smaller than the parent type's `GtkCellRenderer' class size
    from gtk import _gtk
  /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:40: Warning: g_type_get_qdata: assertion `node != NULL' failed
    from gtk import _gtk

  
  I already did the upgrade in my kubuntu where it worked as expected.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.156.14.11
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-32.51-generic 3.2.30
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Oct 18 08:32:51 2012
  GsettingsChanges:
   com.ubuntu.update-manager first-run false
   com.ubuntu.update-manager launch-time 1350541387
   com.ubuntu.update-manager show-details true
   com.ubuntu.update-manager window-height 944
   com.ubuntu.update-manager window-width 600
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-10-18 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstate.tar.gz: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz'
  VarLogDistupgradeMainlog:
   2012-10-18 08:26:31,849 INFO Using config files '['./DistUpgrade.cfg']'
   2012-10-18 08:26:31,849 INFO uname information: 'Linux jrichtsfeld 3.2.0-32-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 26 21:33:09 UTC 2012 x86_64'
   2012-10-18 08:26:31,849 INFO apt version: '0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.3'
   2012-10-18 08:26:31,850 INFO release-upgrader version '0.190.1' started
   2012-10-18 08:26:31,944 WARNING can't import view 'DistUpgradeViewGtk3' (Gtk couldn't be initialized)

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