software updater

[Florian Coste]

Thank you, I'm able to confirm this crash on Xubuntu 16.10 with the latest
build. I will try to find what's going on.

2016-10-03 13:52 GMT+02:00 foss.freedom <foss.freedom at gmail.com>:

> 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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