update-manager becomes unresponsive because it cannot download ReleaseAnnouncement (needs sensible timeout)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Software Updater |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Michael Vogt |
Bug Description
I wanted to upgrade from Edgy to Feisty. I press the "upgrade" button. Then nothing happens and the program is unresponsive.
I am not familiar with python but I tried some debugging. It seems that the problem is that the program is unable to download 'http://
> /usr/lib/
-> gtk.main_
(Pdb)
> /usr/lib/
-> while gtk.events_
(Pdb)
> /usr/lib/
-> gtk.main_
(Pdb) s
> /usr/lib/
-> while gtk.events_
(Pdb) s
> /usr/lib/
-> gtk.main_
(Pdb) list
47 if self.new_
48 uri = self.new_
49 self.window_
50 self.window_
51 while gtk.events_
52 -> gtk.main_
53
54 # download/display the release notes
55 # FIXME: add some progress reporting here
56 res = gtk.RESPONSE_CANCEL
57 try:
(Pdb) uri
'http://
(Pdb) s
> /usr/lib/
-> while gtk.events_
(Pdb)
> /usr/lib/
-> gtk.main_
(Pdb)
> /usr/lib/
-> while gtk.events_
(Pdb)
> /usr/lib/
-> gtk.main_
I can't open "http://
My sources.list is set to a local mirror, so it is not good that I can't upgrade because archive.ubuntu.com is down or overloaded (since everyone is trying to upgrade at the same time I assume).
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Thanks for your bugreport.
This looks like a tranisent error in the archive. Can you please try again a bit later?
thanks,
mIchael