update manager doesn't download packages any more after upgrade to intrepid

[Paolo Benvenuto]

In my software-properties-gtk I have the tab updates with "check for updates" checked, and "donwload all updates in the background" selected.

Until hardy this worked: packages were downloaded without any intervention of me.

After upgrading to intrepid this setting aren't ignored any more.

Packages aren't downloaded until I invoke update manager and ask for updating.

It happens on both my two ubuntu pc's.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Could you please attach the output of:
$ ls -l /var/lib/apt/periodic
and
$ ls /etc/apt/apt.conf.d

[Paolo Benvenuto (donpaolo)]

~$ ls -l /var/lib/apt/periodic
totale 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-11-03 08:04 download-upgradeable-stamp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-11-03 08:04 update-stamp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-01-23 23:31 update-success-stamp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-07-16 07:56 upgrade-stamp
~$ ls -l /etc/apt/apt.conf.d
totale 44
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40 2008-02-07 22:33 00trustcdrom
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165 2008-08-14 18:55 01autoremove
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9 2008-08-14 18:55 01ubuntu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 157 2007-09-15 11:25 05aptitude
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168 2009-01-15 14:19 10periodic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110 2008-02-01 16:55 15update-stamp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 85 2008-04-26 15:21 20archive
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 602 2008-10-13 13:39 50unattended-upgrades
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182 2007-10-01 14:08 70debconf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 221 2007-12-12 15:44 99-localepurge
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116 2006-12-12 10:58 99update-notifier

[Paolo Benvenuto (donpaolo)]

It seems that my "sudo aptitude update" is returning an error code even if its output doesn't let suppose it:

On my system:

$ LC_ALL=C sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install notecase
Hit http://archive.canonical.com intrepid Release.gpg
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid Release.gpg
Hit http://archive.canonical.com intrepid Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security Release.gpg
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-proposed Release.gpg
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security Release
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-backports Release.gpg
Get:1 http://archive.canonical.com intrepid/partner Packages [2199B]
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates Release.gpg
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main Packages
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid Release
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-proposed Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-backports Release
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/universe Packages
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/multiverse Packages
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Packages
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-proposed/main Packages
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-proposed/multiverse Packages
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-proposed/restricted Packages
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-proposed/universe Packages
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-backports/main Packages
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-backports/multiverse Packages
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-backports/restricted Packages
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-backports/universe Packages
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/universe Packages
Fetched 2199B in 29s (74B/s)
Reading package lists... Done

paolo@paolo:~$

it doesn't execute the second command! That signifies that sudo aptitude update is returning an error.

So this would be an apt bug, is it true?

[Paolo Benvenuto (donpaolo)]

I had a canonical partners line in source.list. That line was responsable for the error. I removed it and all is ok.

The bug can be closed.

[Paolo Benvenuto (donpaolo)]

closing