Bug#544009: [CRASH] Uncaught exception GError in Frontend/Gtk/ui.py:741

[Stephan Peijnik]

#bts
tag 544009 +confirmed
thanks

Hi Miles,

Thanks for your bug report. I've just had a look at the code and fixed
it in the update-manager code repository. This will be fixed in the
upcoming 0.200.0~rc2 release of update-manager, to be uploaded "soon".

Oh, by the way, the bug you reported is somehow related to
update-manager not being able to contact the gconf server. This could
mean that your gconf server is for some reason broken. I have
encountered this problem when the update-manager code was on an NFS
partition, but I couldn't really reproduce the bug as it didn't occur
with every start of update-manager.

I am just curious, are you running GNOME or another window manager? Is
your /usr partition on NFS?

-- Stephan

On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 15:44 +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Package: update-manager-gnome
> Version: 0.200.0~rc1-2
> Severity: normal
> File: /usr/share/pyshared/UpdateManager/Frontend/Gtk/ui.py
> 
> 
> I don't know exactly what's going on, but update-manager fails to start no matter how I try to do it (via menu or command line or "sudo update-manager").
> 
> The error message I get is:
> 
> ------------ start ------------ 
> $ LANG=C sudo update-manager
> error from gconf: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-m8W4bKCmdk: Connection refused)/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/UpdateManager/Frontend/GtkCommon/GtkExceptionHandler.py:90: GtkWarning: gdk_x11_atom_to_xatom_for_display: assertion `atom != GDK_NONE' failed
>   res = dialog.run()
> dialog result: -8
> Running as root
> Detected original user in SUDO_USER env variable
> Invoking /usr/share/update-manager/bug_script/debian_reportbug.sh /tmp/update-manager-bugRebWXw /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/UpdateManager/Frontend/Gtk/ui.py /tmp/update-manager-bugGCsG7s via gksu as miles
> GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-TrmqvIvNCL: Connection refused
> ------------ end ------------ 
> 
> THanks,
> 
> -miles