update-manager wrongly requires the presence of /home

[tzp]

Binary package hint: update-manager-core

Release: 9.04
apt-cache policy update-manager-core
update-manager-core:
  Installed: 1:0.111.9
  Candidate: 1:0.111.9
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.111.9 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:0.111.7 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

When I start update-manager, and press the Install updates button, an error message is shown in in the shell complaining about not finding /home.
The reason is that I have no /home directory, that is mounted only via autofs, but not in this network where my computer was connected.

The solution was to patch /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py (which is a symlink to ../../../../share/pyshared/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py) like this:

# for d in ["/","/usr","/var","/boot", archivedir, aufs_rw_dir, "/home"]:
        for d in ["/","/usr","/var","/boot", archivedir, aufs_rw_dir]:

After that, update worked fine.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Sorry that the issue got unattended at the time of report. Please feel free to reopen by marking the status as "new" if you see this in current versions of update-manager.

[tzp (tzp)]

Well, I'm not using Ubuntu any more. But you could check the referred source code in line DistUpgradeCache.py if it still contains "/home" and fix if so.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for update-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]