update manager might be used during release-upgrading and mess things up

[Shahar Or]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Dear friends,

Please see screen shot attached.

While in the process of upgrading to jaunty RC1 I notice that update manager notifies me with the regular orange icon that there are updates.

I open it and it shows me all the packages that are to be upgraded for jaunty. It also tells of a conflict - that a package should be removed and so on.

I've not proceeded with using update-manager, of course, but this is something which confused users might actually do.

I imagine that apart from it being confusing and not persistent it can harm the upgrade process.

Many blessings.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: update-manager 1:0.93.34
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

I agree that its pretty confusing. there is no real harm possible, pressing "proceed" would show a error that another package manager is already working. Still needs fixing though.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This is fixed now, u-m will query ubuntu-system-service if there is a lock taken and if so not pop up.