New install of Hardy not updating packages!?!

[Paolo Di Battista]

So far so good...

Update manager downloaded and installed the updates. But I got two messages
in the course of this that I don't understand:

Here is what happened verbatim:

>$ sudo update-manager
sudo: unable to resolve host NAS
[sudo] password for paolo: (I typed the passwd)
current dist not found in the meta-release file

after it displayed the last line Update Manager opened and it began updating
normally after I clicked Install Updates.

Paolo

-----Original Message-----
From: Corey Burger [mailto:corey.burger at gmail.com] 
Sent: June-19-08 12:44 AM
To: paolo at atrius.ca; The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
Subject: Re: New install of Hardy not updating packages!?!

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Paolo Di Battista
<paolodibattista at rogers.com> wrote:
> Hi all. I recently cleaned off the system hard drive in my RAID 5 NAS and
> installed Hardy i386.  Since the new install it keeps telling me there are
> updates (the number is currently at 138). When I click on the notification
> icon Update Manager opens, but when I then click on update the mouse
pointer
> changes to the "I'm thinking" circle but never changes from there.  I
don't
> get a password prompt or any change, it just keeps going until I force
> Ubuntu to shut down the Update Manager application.
>
>
>
> Furthermore, there are some applications that just don't seem to start,
for
> example System-Administration-Login Window.  When I select it, two buttons
> appear on the bottom of the screen: one is "Starting Administrative
> Application" and the other is "Login Window", but after a few moments they
> disappear and Login Window never opens.
>
>
>
> Anybody have any suggestions?

It looks like there is something wrong with gksudo, the wrapper around
sudo. Open a terminal and type:
sudo update-manager

If that works, then the issue is gksudo and not sudo itself. If it
doesn't, tell us, because the issue gets a whole lot more complex to
fix.

Corey
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