[Bug 1110585] Re: update-manager in raring opens debconf prompts in embedded terminal instead of using gnome frontend like it should

[Michael Terry]

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Michael Terry (mterry)

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Title:
  update-manager in raring opens debconf prompts in embedded terminal
  instead of using gnome frontend like it should

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

Bug description:
  Doing a daily upgrade in raring, I noticed that update-manager had
  stalled.  Looking at the process list, I found the following:

  root     25694  0.6  1.0 294444 41088 ?        SNl  08:02   0:20 /usr/bin/python3.3 /usr/sbin/aptd
  root     28523  0.0  1.0 294448 39180 pts/22   SNs+ 08:17   0:00  \_ /usr/bin/python3.3 /usr/sbin/aptd
  root     31694  0.0  2.4 130352 92924 pts/23   SNs+ 08:18   0:01      \_ /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 78 --unpack --auto-deconfigure /mirror/ubuntu/pool/main/p/perl/perl-modules_5.14.2-17_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.17-0ubuntu1_i386.deb /mirror/ubuntu/pool/main/e/eglibc/libc6_2.17-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
  root     31729  0.0  0.0  61040   524 pts/23   SN+  08:18   0:00          \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst upgrade 2.16-0ubuntu8
  root     31739  0.0  0.0   4412   264 pts/23   SN+  08:18   0:00              \_ /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst upgrade 2.16-0ubuntu8
  root     32033  0.0  0.0  17516   264 pts/23   SN+  08:18   0:00              \_ whiptail --backtitle Package configuration --title Configuring libc6 --output-fd 11 --nocancel --inputbox -- Running services and programs that are using NSS need to be restarted,  otherwise they might not be able to do lookup or authentication any more (for services such as ssh, this can affect your ability to login).  Please review the following space-separated list of init.d scripts for  services to be restarted now, and correct it if needed.  Note: restarting sshd/telnetd should not affect any existing  connections.  Services to restart for GNU libc library upgrade: 17 77 saslauthd postfix cups cron courier-authdaemon atd apache2

  The restart prompt for libc6 2.16->2.17 is being displayed on the
  embedded terminal which is hidden by default, instead of being
  displayed with the gnome frontend like it should be.  This was working
  correctly for me in quantal, although there have been various reports
  floating around for a while of the wrong frontend getting used.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.178
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-22.34-generic 3.5.7.2
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-22-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu2
  Aptdaemon:
   
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Jan 30 08:51:50 2013
  GsettingsChanges:
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1359562024'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'778'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'924'
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-09-24 (859 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-01-25 (5 days ago)

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