[Bug 1043596] Re: The usual software center updater problem encountered

[Charles Norrie]

Dear Mr Thomas,

The point is that it usually does not produce any information other than a
failure of the USC software to load with a break down.  When a breakdown
occurs, I usually get it to report to Launchpad if it deigns to, using the
apport programme.  Is that it?

Now this started nearly a month ago.  What I do when I get this sort of
problem is sidefile all my files, save them on a USB (or two), chck that
the sidefile has worked.

Then do a clean reinstall.

I do have other machines but I am so happy with the way Ubuntu works (I am
not in a production envieronment) that I am willing to risk things going
wrong, and this is what I have been doing since 11.04 alpha 2.

This is really the only problem I have had !

It is a bit of a B*.  I don't think it can be me.  I am using a standard
laptop Sony Vaio VPECH1SOE.

I have never heard of a hardware fault that one remarkably ordinary
programme  causes this sort of problem, and if it is hardware,  I think I
can check that out, as I have another Sony Vaio to hand, a dual boot
though, so the test will not be quite identical.

I shall run what hardwre tests I can on my Vaio (this one - the white one)
and the other the black.

I shall report back what I find.

If it is not my hardware, I cannot understand why you cannot reproduce
it.

But, I don't think, if the problem is in USC (and I am not the only person
who has had some issues, I believe) that Ubuntu 12.10 could be released.

Perhaps there are other machines with hardware faults similar to mine who
are having this issue.  But I am not enough of a programmer to be able to
help you much.

My thanks for your interest.

Charles Norrie

On 30 August 2012 09:49, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at canonical.com> wrote:

> Sorry, but without any information on what the problem is, let alone how
> to reproduce it, there's nothing we can do here.
>
> If you are doing "sudo apt-get update" and "sudo apt-get upgrade" from a
> Terminal, this almost certainly isn't a problem with USC in the first
> place. If it printed an error message, then copy the error message and
> paste it into the bug report.
>
> ** Package changed: software-center (Ubuntu) => apt (Ubuntu)
>
> ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Incomplete
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> Title:
>   The usual software center updater problem encountered
>
> Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
>   Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>   This is the same old software center updater bug, but Launchpad has
>   not identified USC as one of the possibilities, ao I've had to repoty
>   thi as a new bug.  I am finding Launchpad a delicate beast to learn.
>
>   All I was doing was the daily sudo apt-get update and sude apt-bet
>   upgrade and all goes along spiffingly until Ubuntu tells me it wants
>   to reprt a system oroblem.  And so, fudge, honest, it just broke in mt
>   hands and I have no more information other than you've got.  It's a
>   real nasty isn't it.
>
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Title:
  The usual software center updater problem encountered

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  This is the same old software center updater bug, but Launchpad has
  not identified USC as one of the possibilities, ao I've had to repoty
  thi as a new bug.  I am finding Launchpad a delicate beast to learn.

  All I was doing was the daily sudo apt-get update and sude apt-bet
  upgrade and all goes along spiffingly until Ubuntu tells me it wants
  to reprt a system oroblem.  And so, fudge, honest, it just broke in mt
  hands and I have no more information other than you've got.  It's a
  real nasty isn't it.

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