[Bug 891255] Re: Update impossible with update-manager -- loses connection to daemon

[stefan]

One further comment:

If I start update-manager with su privileges (sudo update-manager) from
the command line, the whole process works as expected.

So it is obviously a result of update manager unsuccessfully attempting
to acquire those access rights. In past releases, it would ask me for my
password (I'm member of group admin) and be on its merry way. Now, as I
understand, it will not ask for this but as a result it fails to perform
said updates for lack of authority.

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Title:
  Update impossible with update-manager -- loses connection to daemon

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  When hitting 'Install Updates' on the Update Manager, it briefly greys
  out the manager but does not actually proceed to update anything.
  syslog says something has been queued:

  Nov 16 09:03:45 myserver AptDaemon: INFO: CommitPackages() was called: dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'')], signature=dbus.Signature('s')), dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'')], signature=dbus.Signature('s')), dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'')], signature=dbus.Signature('s')), dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'')], signature=dbus.Signature('s')), dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'icedtea-6-jre-cacao'), dbus.String(u'icedtea-6-jre-jamvm'), dbus.String(u'liblightdm-gobject-1-0'), dbus.String(u'openjdk-6-jre-headless'), dbus.String(u'openjdk-6-jre-lib')], signature=dbus.Signature('s')), dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'')], signature=dbus.Signature('s'))
  Nov 16 09:03:45 myserver AptDaemon.Trans: INFO: Queuing transaction /org/debian/apt/transaction/7d380769c12e48aa99632f955582f2f3

  after a while a window pops up informing me that
  "Task cannot be monitored or controlled"
  The connection to the daemon was lost. Most likely, the background daemon crashed.
  Details:
     It seems that the daemon died.

  Which is true since syslog tells us:

  Nov 16 09:06:04 myserver AptDaemon: INFO: Quitting due to inactivity
  Nov 16 09:06:04 myserver AptDaemon: INFO: Quitting was requested

  apt-get per commandline works fine as a workaround.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: update-manager 1:0.152.25.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Nov 16 09:22:43 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-21 (25 days ago)

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