[Bug 873468] Re: Update to latest Release failed for overloaded mirrors with no descriptive error message

[Barry Warsaw]

On Apr 17, 2012, at 11:22 PM, Brian May wrote:

>I have reported this problem in #773823, which unfortunately was merged
>with a different bug. Requests to have this fixed have been ignored. As
>such, if the mirrors are getting overloaded, maybe this is because
>people are unable to use anything but the official mirrors?

I'm not entirely sure how to unwind all the bug dependencies, but I agree that
bug 773823 should not be a duplicate of bug 873468.  It actually probably
should be a duplicate of bug 289952, but at this point it's probably easier to
just de-dupe 773823, which I've done.

Unfortunately, I can't personally commit to anything more with bug 773823
right now, and I believe we've adequately addressed the actual problem with
bug 873468.  I hope that's at least some small measure of progress.

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Title:
  Update to latest Release failed for overloaded mirrors with no
  descriptive error message

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “update-manager” source package in Precise:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  When auto updating to Oneiric, the update-manager crashed with the
  following message:

  "After your package information was updated the essential package 'ubuntu-minimal' can not be found anymore.
  This indicates a serious error, please report this bug using the command 'ubuntu-bug update-manager' in a terminal and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report."

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.150.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDmesg.txt:
   [   29.414158] EXT4-fs (sda6): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,commit=0
   [   35.168233] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
  Date: Thu Oct 13 18:23:58 2011
  GConfNonDefault:
   /apps/update-manager/check_new_release_ignore=
   /apps/update-manager/first_run=false
   /apps/update-manager/show_details=true
   /apps/update-manager/window_size=(784,600)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-10-13 (0 days ago)

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