Bug#524600: update-manager: Crashes after failing to read configuration

[Olaf Mandel]

Stephan Peijnik schrieb:
-Snipp-
> Can you still reproduce this bug with update-manager from unstable? I
> believe this problem is not present anymore in the new code, so I would
> like to close this bug report.

Hello Stephan,

the bug persists: I tried it twice: once with update-manager, and then
with update-manager-gnome. Here are the two command-lines and their output:

(LANG=C su -c update-manager ; LANG=C dpkg -l update-manager ) 2>&1|tee
update-manager.log

update-manager.log:
Password:
warning: could not initiate dbus
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-manager", line 76, in <module>
    app = UpdateManager(data_dir)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py",
line 400, in __init__
    self.restore_state()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py",
line 831, in restore_state
    expanded =
self.gconfclient.get_bool("/apps/update-manager/show_details")
gobject.GError: Der Konfigurationsserver konnte nicht kontaktiert
werden; mögliche Fehlerquellen sind, dass TCP/IP für ORBit nicht
aktiviert ist oder auf Grund eines Systemabsturzes alte NFS-Sperren
gesetzt sind. Unter http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ erhalten Sie
weitere Informationen (Details –  1: Verbindung zur Sitzung konnte nicht
abgerufen werden: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the
remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy
blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection
was broken.)
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                       Version
   Description
+++-==========================================-===========================-===============================================
ii  update-manager                             0.68.debian-7
   GNOME application that manages software updates



(LANG=C su -c update-manager ; LANG=C dpkg -l update-manager-gnome )
2>&1|tee update-manager-gnome.log

update-manager-gnome.log:
Password:
error from gconf: Der Konfigurationsserver konnte nicht kontaktiert
werden; mögliche Fehlerquellen sind, dass TCP/IP für ORBit nicht
aktiviert ist oder auf Grund eines Systemabsturzes alte NFS-Sperren
gesetzt sind. Unter http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ erhalten Sie
weitere Informationen (Details –  1: Verbindung zur Sitzung konnte nicht
abgerufen werden: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the
remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy
blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection
was broken.)Running as root
Could not detect original user.
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                       Version
   Description
+++-==========================================-===========================-===============================================
ii  update-manager-gnome                       0.200.0~rc2-1
   GNOME application that manages software updates



One thing that is new: I now get a dialog box informing me of the crash,
but independent of which button I click in the box, the program cannot
be run. And again: the problem only occurs for "su -c" and "gksu". It
does not occur for sudo. Anything else I should try?

Best regards,
Olaf Mandel
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