xubuntu-devel Digest, Vol 133, Issue 2

[Rob Peters]

On 10/03/2016 05:00 AM, xubuntu-devel-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
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>     1. software updater (Rob Peters)
>     2. Re: software updater (Florian Coste)
>     3. Re: software updater (flocculant)
>     4. Re: software updater (foss.freedom)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 08:35:08 -0700
> From: Rob Peters <makitso at gmail.com>
> To: xubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: software updater
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> Software updater (update-manager) has been broken for a while.  Its not
> fixed for other distros but not xubuntu.  If you install
> gir1.2-unity-5.0  that fixes the problem.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 13:11:31 +0200
> From: Florian Coste <fcoste21 at gmail.com>
> To: Xubuntu Development Discussion <xubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: software updater
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> Hello,
>
> Could you give us more information, please ? How update-manager is broken ?
>
> Thank you,
> Florian
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> 2016-10-02 17:35 GMT+02:00 Rob Peters <makitso at gmail.com>:
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>> Software updater (update-manager) has been broken for a while.  Its not
>> fixed for other distros but not xubuntu.  If you install gir1.2-unity-5.0
>> that fixes the problem.
>>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 12:12:46 +0100
> From: flocculant <flocculant at gmx.co.uk>
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> Subject: Re: software updater
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> umm - do you mean it is fixed for other distros? If so which ones?
>
> What version of Xubuntu are you talking about?
>
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> On 02/10/16 16:35, Rob Peters wrote:
>> Software updater (update-manager) has been broken for a while.  Its
>> not fixed for other distros but not xubuntu.  If you install
>> gir1.2-unity-5.0  that fixes the problem.
>>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 12:52:37 +0100
> From: "foss.freedom" <foss.freedom at gmail.com>
> To: Xubuntu Development Discussion <xubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: software updater
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> Florian,
>
>    I had a separate chat with Rob (Rob is testing budgie-remix 16.10
> and also the other official community distros) about this matter -
> according to rob "software updater (...really update-manager) has been
> broken for some time, both on ubuntu and ubuntu gnome 16.10."
>
> So I would infer xubuntu 16.10 is 'affected'.  Suggest the real fix
> should be for update-manager to have a dependency on gir1.2-unity-5.0
> - at the moment it is a "suggests"
>
> "update-manager
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 38, in <module>
> from UpdateManager.UpdateManager import UpdateManager
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py",
> line 49, in <module>
> from .UnitySupport import UnitySupport
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManager/UnitySupport.py",
> line 30, in <module>
> gi.require_version('Dbusmenu', '0.4')
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/init.py", line 118, in require_version
> raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
> ValueError: Namespace Dbusmenu not available"
>
> David
>
> On 3 October 2016 at 12:12, flocculant <flocculant at gmx.co.uk> wrote:
>> umm - do you mean it is fixed for other distros? If so which ones?
>>
>> What version of Xubuntu are you talking about?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02/10/16 16:35, Rob Peters wrote:
>>> Software updater (update-manager) has been broken for a while.  Its not
>>> fixed for other distros but not xubuntu.  If you install gir1.2-unity-5.0
>>> that fixes the problem.
>>>
>>
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Florian,

OK,  I am testing xubuntu 16.10, ubuntu 16.10 and ubuntu-gnome 16.10.
Update-manager has failed (crashed)for quite some time in xubuntu 16.10 
and ubuntu-gnome.
On xubuntu, after the crash apport starts but says bug has already been 
reported.

David's comments above are spot on.