[lucid] update-notifier 99 breaks ubuntu-desktop

[Dick Dowdell]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 2:46 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 03/19/2010 11:31 PM, NoOp wrote:
> > Anyone else having issues with the update-notifier upgrades this evening?
> >
> > update-notifier-common removes ubuntu-desktop and update-notifier -
> > result is a desktop background with no panels. Mouse works,
> > Alt-CTRL-F1-6 works, but nothing else (including booting into failsafe
> > mode & attempting to reinstall ubuntu-desktop results in:
> >
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >  ubuntu-desktop: Depends: update-notifier but it is not going to be
> > installed
> >  E: Broken packages
> >
> > Tried to file a bug report on launchpad, but launchpad is so screwed up
> > following their "upgrade" that I only get:
> > ====
> > Unexpected form data
> >
> > Launchpad doesn't understand the form data submitted in this request.
> > ====
> >
> > The update is from update-notifier 98 to 99 & 99 seems to be the culprit.
> >
> > On another test system I've held back all of the update-notifier
> > upgrades & that seems to
> >
> >
>
> May have found the appropriate bug report:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cdbs/+bug/542343
> [gnome-panel<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cdbs/+bug/542343%0A[gnome-panel>will not autostart on lucid]
> So heads-up!!
>
>
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After updating last night, I'm having the same problem.  Sony VAIO W Series
w/ 2GB RAM.

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Dick Dowdell
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