"Failed to download repository information" alert is unattractive

Bug #1153569 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-manager (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
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Bug Description

update-manager 1:0.174.4, Ubuntu 12.10

In some situations (e.g. bug 888845, bug 1097073), a "Failed to download repository information" alert appears.

This alert is unattractive in several ways:
a. it is maximizable
b. the title is "update-manager", all lower-case
c. the primary text is not a complete sentence
d. it uses the word "repository"
e. the secondary text is "Check your Internet connection", when that usually is not the problem
f. it has a "Close" button.

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#check-interactive>: "If the check fails because of an error, the progress window should morph into an error alert, with the title 'Software Updater' and primary text depending on the exact situation ... 'The check for updates couldn’t complete because not all software channels are available.'"

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :
description: updated
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
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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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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
assignee: Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) → nobody
status: Confirmed → Triaged
description: updated
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Stéphane Guillou (stephane-guillou) wrote :

I meant, see also Bug #1161776.

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Karim BAKKAL (kabak-85) wrote :

Same issue on xUbuntu 20.04.

Message box describe an connection issue in place of the right issue, in my case it was a wrong public key issue.

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