software updater

[Rob Peters]

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.

[Florian Coste]

Hello,

Could you give us more information, please ? How update-manager is broken ?

Thank you,
Florian

Post by Rob Peters
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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[flocculant]

umm - do you mean it is fixed for other distros? If so which ones?

What version of Xubuntu are you talking about?

Post by Rob Peters
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.

[foss.freedom]

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

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

Post by Rob Peters
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 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.

Post by foss.freedom
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

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

Post by Rob Peters
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

Post by flocculant

Post by Rob Peters
that fixes the problem.

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[Florian Coste]

Post by foss.freedom
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.

Hi Rob,
You're saying the bug has already been reported, but I don't see him at
launchpad. Do you have a link to share it, please ?

When I'm trying to report this bug, I have this message :
"The problem cannot be reported:
This is not an official Ubuntu package. Please remove any third party
package and try again".

I can confirm the crash.

[flocculant]

Thanks Rob.

Appears to be a private bug for that, I reported it too at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1629900 and attached a fix which doesn't
include us installing a new package. (thanks krytarik)

regards

Post by Rob Peters
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.