[Bug 1067374] [NEW] [Quantal] [Regression] update-manager fails and exits if any source cannot be reached

[Swâmi Petaramesh]

Public bug reported:

Confirming immediately, as behaviour is consistent across 6 machines and
more than a month.

In Quantal, update-manager immediately exits if any of the sources
listed in /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* is
temporarily unreachable, or if its package list update fails for
whatever reason.

This prevents installing updates from working sources as soon as one,
possibly minor, additional source fails. (and some minor sources do fail
very often, such as http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian
that is a good example...)

This is a regression. Previous to Quantal, having one failing source
didn't prevent from upgrading from other, working ones.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.174.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 1ea6109db29b53f721a523a77b7f3abf
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
Date: Tue Oct 16 16:25:38 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GsettingsChanges:
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1350396625'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'516'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'570'
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-28 (49 days ago)

** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug quantal running-unity

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

** Attachment removed: "CurrentDmesg.txt.txt"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1067374/+attachment/3400238/+files/CurrentDmesg.txt.txt

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Title:
  [Quantal] [Regression] update-manager fails and exits if any source
  cannot be reached

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

Bug description:
  Confirming immediately, as behaviour is consistent across 6 machines
  and more than a month.

  In Quantal, update-manager immediately exits if any of the sources
  listed in /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* is
  temporarily unreachable, or if its package list update fails for
  whatever reason.

  This prevents installing updates from working sources as soon as one,
  possibly minor, additional source fails. (and some minor sources do
  fail very often, such as
  http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian that is a good
  example...)

  This is a regression. Previous to Quantal, having one failing source
  didn't prevent from upgrading from other, working ones.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: update-manager 1:0.174.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: 1ea6109db29b53f721a523a77b7f3abf
  CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
  Date: Tue Oct 16 16:25:38 2012
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  GsettingsChanges:
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1350396625'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'516'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'570'
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-28 (49 days ago)

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