Upgrade 6.10->7.04 fails in the start with dbus and PGP errors

[J.Bretschneider]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I wanted to upgrade my Ubuntu Desktop 6.10 system to the new Release 7.04 according to the roadmap on the Ubuntu website.
I verified that all system updates were done in Synaptics and that the required version of update-manager was present (i have 0.45.4), and then started update Manager from the K-Menu, as recommended.

Unfortunately, there was no message "new release 7.04 available" and no button "Upgrade" available within the message box, which was telling me that my system was up to date.

I tried then to start the upgrade directly in a gksu shell and got a popup window from update manager, offering me the system release 7.04 upgrade. But doing this ended quickly with a PGP error when checking the feisty tarball:

gksu "update-manager -c"
warning: could not initiate dbus
extracting '/tmp/tmpHvq79F/feisty.tar.gz'
authenticate '/tmp/tmpHvq79F/feisty.tar.gz' against
'/tmp/tmpHvq79F/feisty.tar.gz.gpg'
exception from gpg: GnuPG exited non-zero, with code 8323072

doing the same thing as sudo didn't work either:

sudo update-manager -c -d
Password:
warning: could not initiate dbus
Unhandled exception in thread started by <bound method
MetaRelease.download of <MetaRelease object
(UpdateManager+MetaRelease+MetaRelease) at 0xb67e9be4>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/UpdateManager/MetaRelease.py",
line 170, in download
    f=open(self.METARELEASE_FILE,"w+")
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/home/bretschn/.update-manager/meta-release'

running with the --dist-ugprade option failed also, telling me that it
was trying to upgrade to 6.10 and, after 5 seconds, that my system was
up to date.

Looking for similar bug reports on launchpad I found out that a similar problem has been desribed in BUG #120957, fixed by a update manager patch. Looking into the patch I found it was already implemented in my
    /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/UpdateManager/MetaRelease.py
and that the second patch was intended for
   update-manager-0.59.22/debian/rules
which I do not have installed.

My Ubuntu System 6.10 was a fresh install in May 2007, on an x386 PC.

I wanted to upgrade because I need KDE 3.5.7 to be able to login to our Solaris 10 network.
The latest KDE release supported by Edgy seems to be 3.5.5, which I already have but crashes when used for a Solaris 10 login..

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[J.Bretschneider (joerg-bretschneider)]

I got no solution and hence I was not able to upgrade until now.
So it remains an issue for me. I am waiting for good news to try the
upgrade again.
BR Joerg

Brian Murray wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
> for you? Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Tags added: edgy2feisty
>
> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

--
Jörg Bretschneider

Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen
Institutsteil Entwurfsautomatisierung
Zeunerstr. 38,
01069 Dresden,
Germany

Tel. ++49(0)351/4640-749
Fax: ++49(0)351/4640-703
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[Richard Birnie (rbirnie-deactivatedaccount)]

There has been no activity on this bug for several months. Feel free to re-open if this is still an issue