Jaunty Update Manager is broken

[Tony Baldwin]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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> Tony Baldwin wrote:
>> Steve Flynn wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>        I woke up this morning with Update Manager almost but not quite fully
>>>> functional. I could not get it to d/l the updates so I opened a terminal
>>>> and used update and upgrade and got the updates.
>>>>
>>>>        Update Manager will not quit, work or nothing. I am going to use the
>>>> update Manager to delete this but it refused. It said use the synastic
>>>> package manager but now THAT will not come up even after giving it the
>>>> root password!
>>>>
>>>>        So I am going to leave Jaunty for good. It is really broken BAD!
>>> I'd hazard a guess that yours is "broken BAD" (woeful English by the
>>> way) but for the rest of us it's working perfectly well.
>>>
>>> What output do you get if you run synastic (sic) from the command line?
>>>
>> I can't get synastic to run either...I can't even find it!  LOL!!
>>
>> Honestly though, if
>> aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade
>> (or apt-get, if you prefer, but I recommend aptitude)
>> works, why leave?
>> maybe it will fix 'synastic' and update-manager.
>>
>> also, Karl, pay attention here:
>> do
>>
>> # sudo su
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> 	This worked and gives me a root Terminal.
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>> $ synaptic 2> synasticerrors.txt
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>> then send us the content of synasticderrors.txt

It's probably in /root
You might have to chmod it to read it.
or while still signed in as root do
$ cat synasticerrors.txt
and cut-n-paste from your terminal (if you use one that supports 
cut-n-paste).

But, hey, if it's now working, you're probably not getting any errors.
As mentioned previously, it was likely not starting because 
update-manager was hanging, and now that is resolved, from what I 
understand.

good luck
tony

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