[Bug 549350] Re: Update manager will not open

[Robert Roth]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Karmic reached EOL on April 30, 2011.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

I've tried recreating this bug with Oneiric and was unable to, given the
information you've provided. Please either a) upgrade and test or b)
increase the verbosity of the steps to recreate it so we can try again.

Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to update-manager in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549350

Title:
  Update manager will not open

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

Bug description:
  When I goto System > Administration > Update manager 
  Nothing happens eg update manager dose not start. I can use Synaptic Package manager 

  chris at chris-desktop:~$ update-manager
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 53, in <module>
  parser = OptionParser()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1198, in __init__
  self.set_usage(usage)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1273, in set_usage
  self.usage = _("%prog [options]")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 581, in gettext
  return dgettext(_current_domain, message)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 545, in dgettext
  codeset=_localecodesets.get(domain))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 493, in translation
  t = _translations.setdefault(key, class_(open(mofile, 'rb')))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 180, in __init__
  self._parse(fp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 273, in _parse
  magic = unpack('<I', buf[:4])[0]
  struct.error: unpack requires a string argument of length 4
  chris at chris-desktop:~$

  ******************
  chris at chris-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude reinstall update-manager python2.6
  [sudo] password for chris:
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Reading extended state information
  Initializing package states... Done
  The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
  python2.6 update-manager
  0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 0B/3,297kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
  Writing extended state information... Done
  (Reading database ... 173578 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to replace python2.6 2.6.4-0ubuntu3 (using .../python2.6_2.6.4-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement python2.6 ...
  Preparing to replace update-manager 1:0.126.9 (using .../update-manager_1%3a0.126.9_all.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement update-manager ...
  Processing triggers for man-db ...
  Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
  Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
  Setting up python2.6 (2.6.4-0ubuntu3) ...

  Setting up update-manager (1:0.126.9) ...

  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Reading extended state information
  Initializing package states... Done

  chris at chris-desktop:~$

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/549350/+subscriptions