Bug#415131: update-manager: unknown interface gtk

[A Mennucc]

Package: update-manager
Version: 0.42.2ubuntu22-11
Severity: normal

hi

this morning I was notified by the update-notifier icon that there
were upgrades needed; so I decided to give it a try, and I clicked it,
it asked the root password, and then started update-manager , that in
turn proposed to upgrade "ntpdate" ; I clicked OK; so a new window
came out that showed progress in the installation; when I looked into the
"details" (that AFAICT is a terminal showing what dpkg is doing) I
noted the line "Uknown interface: gtk"

maybe update-manager , or synaptic , is missing some dependency ?
(btw: I have libgnome2-perl installed )

I started another upgrade (after a apt-get update) so I could peek into
dpkg env (using 'ps xwwwwe'), and I saw this:

/usr/sbin/synaptic --hide-main-window --non-interactive --parent-window-id 52428803 --progress-str Attendere, l'operazione potrebbere richiedere del tempo. --finish-str Aggiornamento completato --set-selections-file /tmp/tmpL4ayjb SSH_AGENT_PID=2531 SHELL=/bin/bash GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/debdev/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 USER=root SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-ZPBrzv2483/agent.2483 GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-FzryQt/socket USERNAME=debdev SESSION_MANAGER=local/tonelli:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2483 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11 DESKTOP_SESSION=default MAIL=/var/mail/root _=/usr/bin/update-manager GDM_XSERVER_LOCATION=local PWD=/home/debdev LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 GDM_LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 GDMSESSION=default SHLVL=2 HOME=/root GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=Default LOGNAME=root DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-odpCJbtZ3j,guid=b947faba2e01532fd88b100045fa795d DISPLAY=:0.0 XAUTHORITY=/tmp/libgksu-J3sWyB/.Xauthority APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND=none

gnome-pty-helper SSH_AGENT_PID=2531 SHELL=/bin/bash GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/debdev/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 USER=root SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-ZPBrzv2483/agent.2483 GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-FzryQt/socket USERNAME=debdev SESSION_MANAGER=local/tonelli:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2483 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11 DESKTOP_SESSION=default MAIL=/var/mail/root _=/usr/bin/update-manager GDM_XSERVER_LOCATION=local PWD=/home/debdev LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 GDM_LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 GDMSESSION=default SHLVL=2 HOME=/root GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=Default LOGNAME=root DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-odpCJbtZ3j,guid=b947faba2e01532fd88b100045fa795d DISPLAY=:0.0 XAUTHORITY=/tmp/libgksu-J3sWyB/.Xauthority APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND=gtk DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gnome

/usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 6 --configure libgnomevfs2-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-bin libgnomevfs2-extra SSH_AGENT_PID=2531 SHELL=/bin/bash GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/debdev/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 USER=root SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-ZPBrzv2483/agent.2483 GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-FzryQt/socket USERNAME=debdev SESSION_MANAGER=local/tonelli:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2483 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11 DESKTOP_SESSION=default MAIL=/var/mail/root _=/usr/bin/update-manager GDM_XSERVER_LOCATION=local PWD=/home/debdev LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 GDM_LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 GDMSESSION=default SHLVL=2 HOME=/root GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=Default LOGNAME=root DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-odpCJbtZ3j,guid=b947faba2e01532fd88b100045fa795d DISPLAY=:0.0 XAUTHORITY=/tmp/libgksu-J3sWyB/.Xauthority APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND=gtk DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gnome TERM=xterm DPKG_NO_TSTP=yes


(if you think that this is a bug in synaptic, feel free to reassign)

a.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages update-manager depends on:
ii  libgnome2-perl                1.040-1    Perl interface to the GNOME librar
ii  lsb-release                   3.1-23     Linux Standard Base version report
ii  python                        2.4.4-2    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-apt                    0.6.19     Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii  python-glade2                 2.8.6-8    GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2                 2.12.4-6   Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gnupginterface         0.3.2-9    Python interface to GnuPG (GPG)
ii  python-support                0.5.6      automated rebuilding support for p
ii  synaptic                      0.57.11.1  Graphical package manager

update-manager recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Andrea Mennucc

"The EULA sounds like it was written by a team of lawyers who want to tell 
me what I can't do, and the GPL sounds like it was written by a human 
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