xubuntu-devel Digest, Vol 133, Issue 2

[Rob Peters]

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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
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
Subject: Re: software updater
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Hello,
Could you give us more information, please ? How update-manager is broken ?
Thank you,
Florian

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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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 12:12:46 +0100
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?

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
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
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

umm - do you mean it is fixed for other distros? If so which ones?
What version of Xubuntu are you talking about?

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.