[Bug 412182] Re: System crashed when update-manager called for the first time after fresh install - hung when 'setting up notification-daemon'

[Tim]

Cleaning out old reports.  Please file a new one if this is still a problem in a current release.  Thanks.
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** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  System crashed when update-manager called for the first time after
  fresh install - hung when 'setting up notification-daemon'

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

Bug description:
  STEPS TO REPRODUCE
  * Installed Ubuntu Studio 9.04 on a 20 Gigabyte partition of a Dell Inspiron 1520
    - During the install I had a wired LAN connection autoconfigured successfully
    - I selected the audio workstation and LDPSI plugins options (ie. 2 out of the 4 options for Ubuntu Studio)
  * Called update-manager for the first time 
  * Updates proceeded until I got a crash which completely hung my system
  * I think the updating information at the time said something like 'setting up notification-daemon'
  * I was able to use Alt-Ctrl-F1 through to F4 to get to the shells
    - I could type my username and press return on each of the shells but then they would hang too
    - I tried this in a few of the shells (ie. F1, F2, F4)
    - Upon pressing Alt-Ctrl-F7 then I got a completely black screen and could never return to the F1 to F4 shells again
    - I tried Alt-Ctrl-Del and Alt-Ctrl-Backspace but nothing happened
    - I tried to power off the machine by holding down the power button for less than 3 seconds but this would not work
  * Upon logging back in I now have a very ugly looking desktop - big square buttons - so the desktop widgets must have fallen back to some old windowing or something
  * When I look at /var/log/apt/term.log the last few lines read

  Setting up libpulsecore9 (1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20.2) ...^M
  ^M
  Setting up libpurple-bin (1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.3) ...^M
  Setting up pidgin-data (1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.3) ...^M
  ^M
  Setting up libtrackerclient0 (0.6.93-0ubuntu3) ...^M
  ^M
  Setting up libxcb-render0 (1.1.93-0ubuntu3.1) ...^M
  ^M
  Setting up libxml2-utils (2.6.32.dfsg-5ubuntu4.2) ...^M
  Setting up linux-libc-dev (2.6.28-14.47) ...^M
  Setting up linux-restricted-modules-common (2.6.28-14.19) ...^M
  update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/linux-restricted-modules-common missing LSB information^M
  update-rc.d: see <http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts>^M
  ^M
  Setting up metacity (1:2.25.144-0ubuntu2.1) ..

  * Note: That I have not run the dpkg reconfiguring command so perhaps
  the system actually crashed when it was setting up metacity - ie.
  notification-daemon and update-manager might be innocent :-)

  ADDITIONAL NOTES
  * This problem happened before. I was carrying out this reinstall in the hope of fixing it. Thus it seems to be reproduceable. I am willing to reproduce it again if you need me to
  * Previously I would encountered crashed quite frequently - especially when using Audacity
  * My previous installation was pretty new too - I'd only being using it for a few days

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.111.9
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  Uname: Linux 2.6.28-3-rt i686

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