[Bug 1847479] Re: update-manager window expands off-screen (which effectively stops distribution upgrade)

[arQon]

Just happened with 21.04 (on a pi4), albeit with a minor variation: this time, the suggestion was "change the home directory of user irc?" (the pi was a server install originally, with the desktop packages added later).
When I clicked "Help" it resized the window to fill the desktop, and I can JUST see what I'm guessing is the top of a "Close" button at the very bottom of the screen.

Once again, the window CANNOT be moved, and CANNOT be resized vertically
(although it CAN be resized horizontally). IDK what toolkit the
installer is using and how it manages to apparently default to being
this broken, but the fix is the same as it was 18 months ago: if the
layout is going to keep breaking like this - and empirically, it
obviously is - then we need to stop disabling basic functionality like
resize so the user can at least work around it!

Cheers.

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Title:
  update-manager window expands off-screen (which effectively stops
  distribution upgrade)

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Attempted to update to Ubuntu 19.10 using:
  update-manager -d

  Update-manager asks "Do you want to start the upgrade?" and summarizes
  packages to be removed/downloaded.

  Clicking to show the details expands the window beyond the size of my
  screen (1280x800) so that I can't access the "Start Upgrade" button,
  effectively stopping the upgrade.

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