Bug#630550: update-manager: Stalls again

[David H]

Package: update-manager
Severity: normal


Second time this year, update-manager going nuts again. You guessed it: it's UbuntuWare ;)

Behavior appeared today with an outstanding suggested update (notification going red). Manager does use 100% cpu and is unresponsive. 
Needs to be killed via a root shell.

IMHO: please get rid of this piece of python-crap with Wheezy release.
It's obviously not even seperating the gui from the worker thread. I don't even want to look deeper in its sources.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash