[Bug 847174] Re: update-manager crashed with TypeError in confirmChanges(): glib.markup_escape_text() takes at most 1 argument (2 given)

[Greg Singer]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 832745 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/832745

Okay, now that I've actually looked at the traceback, I can add more
information:

update-manager has asked to run a partial upgrade on a few occasions
since I upgraded to Oneiric.  On every single such occasion, when I
clicked the button to run the partial upgrade, update-manager started
going through the update process and then crashed.  I think my last
couple attempts to report that were stymied by the apport crashed that I
mentioned in the first post.  Anyway, it looks like this crash is
related to the partial upgrade problem and is not necessarily an
artifact of update-manager being run after login.

So, I rephrase these:

Expected behavior:  partial upgrades do not crash update-manager.

Observed behavior:  partial upgrades do crash update-manager.  Automated
runs of update-manager after login fail as a side effect.

I've been working around the partial upgrade crash by closing the
partial upgrade prompt and installing whichever packages are checked in
the upgrade manager dialog.  I don't know if that's been a good idea..

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Title:
  update-manager crashed with TypeError in confirmChanges():
  glib.markup_escape_text() takes at most 1 argument (2 given)

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

Bug description:
  I upgraded to Oneiric a week or two ago.  Sometime later, I started
  getting notifications about a problem with a system program having
  been detected after logging in.  Usually, when I tried to report that
  problem, apport itself crashed, but after installing some updates
  today, it was apparently able to go through.  The crash data suggests
  that the automated run of update-manager is failing.  I have noticed
  that I have to run update-manager manually if I want to update; the
  crash seems like the most likely cause.

  update-manager does not crash if I run it manually.  There must be
  something different about the automated run that triggers the crash.

  
  Expected behavior:  update-manager runs after login without crashing.

  Observed behavior:  update-manager runs after login, but crashes.

  
  In case it's not in the bug data, apt-cache says I'm running update-manager 1:0.152.17.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: update-manager 1:0.152.17
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.15-generic 3.0.3
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Sep 11 10:53:59 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/update-manager --dist-upgrade
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager', '--dist-upgrade']
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  Title: update-manager crashed with TypeError in confirmChanges(): glib.markup_escape_text() takes at most 1 argument (2 given)
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-11 (0 days ago)
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