Karmic upgrade silently exits if /home does not exist

[Ken Collins]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I'm using /usr/local/home instead of /home because of my site's autofs policy. I didn't have /home mounted when upgrading, so I didn't have a /home directory. The Karmic installer exited silently, and I found this trace when I ran update-manager from the command line:

extracting 'karmic.tar.gz'
authenticate 'karmic.tar.gz' against 'karmic.tar.gz.gpg'
/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/dbus/connection.py:242: DeprecationWarning: object.__init__() takes no parameters
  super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/tmpNvswLM/karmic", line 7, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/tmp/tmpNvswLM/DistUpgradeMain.py", line 132, in main
    if app.run():
  File "/tmp/tmpNvswLM/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1590, in run
    return self.fullUpgrade()
  File "/tmp/tmpNvswLM/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1552, in fullUpgrade
    if not self.askDistUpgrade():
  File "/tmp/tmpNvswLM/DistUpgradeController.py", line 893, in askDistUpgrade
    if not self._checkFreeSpace():
  File "/tmp/tmpNvswLM/DistUpgradeController.py", line 844, in _checkFreeSpace
    self.cache.checkFreeSpace()
  File "/tmp/tmpNvswLM/DistUpgradeCache.py", line 1006, in checkFreeSpace
    st = os.statvfs(d)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home'

It should display an error message instead of exiting silently.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.111.9
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-16-server i686

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.132.1

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update-manager (1:0.132.1) lucid; urgency=low

  * rename update-manager-support-status to ubuntu-support-status
  * check-new-release-gtk:
    - add gtk tool for release notification that is designed to be
      run from update-notifier (desktop-lucid-update-upgrade-requirements)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py:
    - fix crash in cleanup code
    - fix crash when /home is missing (LP: #463506)
    - fix component inconsitency detection debug output
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewGtk.py:
    - remove old code that moved to python-apt
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py:
    - if universe is not enabled, explain that the demoted packages
      will be suggested for removal in the cleanup stage
  * UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py:
    - fix urlopen() crash on hardy->lucid cdrom upgrades
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:54:57 +0100