[Bug 1045590] Re: update-manager closes without doing anything when I click 'Install Now'

[Steve Langasek]

This may be a false alarm.  An strace of update-manager shows this:

recvmsg(12, {msg_name(0)=NULL,
msg_iov(1)=[{"l\3\1\1N\0\0\0o\0\0\0`\0\0\0\6\1s\0\7\0\0\0:1.1873\0\4\1s\0&\0\0\0org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.Error.Failed\0\0\5\1u\0:\0\0\0\10\1g\0\1s\0\0\7\1s\0\7\0\0\0:1.1872\0I\0\0\0
('system-bus-name', {'name': ':1.1873'}): org.debian.apt.upgrade-
packages\0\0\0\25\0\0\0status-
authenticating\0\0\0(\0\0\0\6\1s\0\7\0\0\0:1.1873\0\5\1u\0009\0\0\0\7\1s\0\7\0\0\0"...,
2048}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC}, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC)
= 190

And console-kit-daemon crashed on me in the same time frame.  So it's
possible that this is a permissions problem, nothing more.  However,
update-manager should do something more reasonable than closing with no
feedback in the event of a permissions error.

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Title:
  update-manager closes without doing anything when I click 'Install
  Now'

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

Bug description:
  Starting sometime in the past half week, whenever I try to install
  updates with update-manager, it immediately closes, exiting 0.  If
  this is a widespread bug, then it's critical since this will prevent
  users from knowing how to apply updates to their systems.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: update-manager 1:0.170
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-11.11-generic 3.5.2
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-11-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu4
  Aptdaemon:
   
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Sep  3 17:07:21 2012
  GsettingsChanges:
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1346717210'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'846'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'905'
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-06-11 (84 days ago)

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