updates requiring keyboard input

[Tommy Trussell]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 00:14 -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Hm. Now I'm not sure any more! It's the one that has popped up
> automatically since I first installed 14.04. I may have to wait until it
> pops up again :-) Running "update-manager" from the command line has no
> visible effect, and I note that one instance is already running, so I
> think that "update-manager" may be identifying itself as "Software
> Updater".
>
>
Yes, that's the one I mean. running update-manager from the command line
should bring up "Software Updater." The fact that it showed an instance
running when you tried to invoke it MAY be significant -- on my system I
think that could only be true if it still has a dialog open on the screen
somewhere. Maybe it's hanging on some bad code somewhere on your system.

I keep the Software Updater icon pinned to the dock so I can easily tell if
it's running -- as you know sometimes its dialogs pop up where you can't
see them. It also includes a progress bar and it changes color when it
wants your attention. In previous versions of Ubuntu they also had a couple
of commands in the icon's right-click menu ("install all updates" was one
of them) but those don't seem to be included anymore.

There is a man page for update-manager, and as I mentioned you can see the
python code part of it in /usr/bin/update-manager ... you can also see the
gtkbuilder dialogs in /usr/share/update-manager/gtkbuilder  (all of this
easily located by typing "whereis update-manager" in a terminal). There's
also some stuff in /etc but I am flummoxed as to what purpose those files
serve.

None of this helps a lot but you might find it interesting as you dig
around looking for the solution.

If you just want it fixed I think you might use synaptic or aptitude to try
a reinstall of the three packages update-manager update-manager-core and
python3-update-manager
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