updates requiring keyboard input

[Tommy Trussell]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Here's an example of how the updater is "hanging" while it waits for
>> user input. I just cut-and-pasted this chunk out of the "Details"
>> window; there was a colon prompt at the bottom, and when I pressed "q"
>> the update proceeded normally.
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> [...]
>> (
>> http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/libx/libxfont/libxfont_1.4.7-1ubuntu0.2/changelog)
>> [13.1 kB]
>> libxfont (1:1.4.7-1ubuntu0.2) trusty-security; urgency=medium
>>
>>   * SECURITY UPDATE: arbitrary code exection via invalid property count
>>     - debian/patches/CVE-2015-1802.patch: check for integer overflow in
>>       src/bitmap/bdfread.c.
>>     - CVE-2015-1802
>>   * SECURITY UPDATE: arbitrary code execution via bitmap data parse
>> failure
>>     - debian/patches/CVE-2015-1803.patch: bail out if bitmap can't be
>> read
>>       in src/bitmap/bdfread.c.
>>     - CVE-2015-1803
>>   * SECURITY UPDATE: arbitrary code execution via invalid metrics
>>     - debian/patches/CVE-2015-1804.patch: ensure metrics fit in struct
>> in
>>       src/bitmap/bdfread.c.
>>     - CVE-2015-1804
>>   * Backport some commits from git to solve ftbfs with newer fontsproto:
>>     - debian/patches/ftbfs-new-fontsproto.patch
>>     - debian/patches/ftbfs-new-fontsproto-2.patch
>>
>>  -- Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers at ubuntu.com>  Wed, 18 Mar 2015
>> 07:32:09 -0400
>> :
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
>>
>> Not a big problem, but an irritant. Are others seeing this?
>>
>>
>
> No, that update came through and installed just fine on my systems
> (running "straight" Ubuntu 14.04 with Unity). I didn't have to interact
> with the updater at all, except to tell it to install all of them.
>
> What "flavor" Ubuntu are you using?
>
> Are you using update-manager (aka "Software Updater") or a different
> software update tool?
>
>
I went back and found your other thread and you said the updater is showing
the changelogs, and from your description it sounds like you are talking
about update-manager.

Using that tool I find I have to click about three times to even DISPLAY
the changelogs -- I do not know of a way to display them automatically. I
wonder if our other discussion about viewing the changelogs using apt on
the command line is relevant... Maybe you have an environment variable set
that tells apt its default behavior outputs the changelogs, and it confuses
update-manager scripts?

I just had a quick look through the update-manager code and man page and I
don't see ANY option to intentionally display the changelog text... so if
there's not an apt environment variable causing an issue, so maybe another
possibility is some part of update-manager has gotten corrupted on your
system somehow?
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