update-manager shows no reason for a failure

[Phill Whiteside]

when updating lubuntu 13.10, I was asked to use update-manager instead of apt-get update and apt-get dist-release. There is no progress shown and the attempt failed with no obvious error message, when there should have been two 404 errors.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.190
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-3.8-generic 3.11.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-3-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Aug 24 05:12:37 2013
GsettingsChanges: b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1377315536'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-06-29 (55 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha amd64 (20130628)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Phill Whiteside (phillw)]

After upgrading using dist-upgrade:

phillw@piglet:~$ sudo update-manager
[sudo] password for phillw:

** (update-manager:2923): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-ay9SNzQL49: Connection refused

Software Updater shows as Downloading, but no way to see progress. The window does now show the 2nd screen about what is to be installed.

[Phill Whiteside (phillw)]

Installation part does give the option to view progress.