update-manager does not cope gracefully with 'apt-get autoremove' being run from console in the background

Bug #1036784 reported by Steve Langasek
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-manager (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

update-manager crashed because I ran 'apt-get autoremove' from console while the window was open, then hit 'install' in the app. It didn't like that the system state had changed after it had calculated its lists, and did not deal with this gracefully.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.168
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-9.9-generic 3.5.0
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-9-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6
Aptdaemon:

Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Aug 14 11:36:27 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
GsettingsChanges:
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1344969354'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'747'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'640'
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.2mu
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/update-manager --no-update
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager', '--no-update']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with Package virtuoso-opensource-6.1-bin isn't installed in _run_in_dialog()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-06-11 (64 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin mythtv plugdev sambashare src sudo

Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
visibility: private → public
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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