update-manager ignores karmic

[Florian Hars]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I have a laptop with a fairly standard and up-to-date jaunty (updated once from intrepid), only non-standard thing is
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://192.168.178.20:3142";
in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00proxy. Apt-cacher is working at that address (just updated firefox (jaunty) on the laptop through it), updating to karmic through localhost:3142 on that host worked just fine, checking for all releases on the laptop is enabled, and still running update-manager -d or update-manager -c does not show anything except "your system is up to date".

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.111.9
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-16-generic i686

[Florian Hars (hars)]

The problem is somewhere between update-manager and apt-cacher. I just removed the proxy definition from apt.conf.d and started update-manager, which now noticed the new release. Then I quit update-manager, put the apt-cacher proxy definition back in, started update-manager again and now the laptop started downloading through apt-cacher but failed:

, W:Konnte http://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com/dists/karmic-updates/multiverse/i18n/Translation-de.bz2 nicht holen Fehler beim Lesen vom Server - read (104 Connection reset by peer)
, W:Konnte http://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com/dists/karmic-security/restricted/i18n/Translation-de.bz2 nicht holen Fehler beim Lesen vom Server - read (104 Connection reset by peer)
, W:Konnte http://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com/dists/karmic-security/multiverse/i18n/Translation-de.bz2 nicht holen Fehler beim Lesen vom Server - read (104 Connection reset by peer)
, E:Einige Indexdateien konnten nicht heruntergeladen werden, sie wurden ignoriert oder alte an ihrer Stelle benutzt.'. Retrying (currentRetry: 2)

I had to completely remove german language support, but now it happily downloads the cached karmic packages:

Sat Oct 31 13:45:57 2009|4417|192.168.178.22|HIT|170634|vim-common_7.2.245-2ubuntu2_i386.deb

[Neil Mayhew (neil.mayhew)]

MetaRelease.py (the Python code that does the check for a new release) uses urllib2 directly, and doesn't use the apt/synaptic settings. Although urllib2 looks at the environment variables for proxy settings, sudo zaps these for security reasons. I was able to make it work by using sudo -s to get a root shell, setting the environment variables, and then running update-manager. My squid access log shows that it fetched http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release.

I believe this is a bug in MetaRelease.py, which should be changed to use the proxy settings from apt/synaptic.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Could you please check if the version in jaunty-proposed helps with this problem? It fixes a proxy releated bug.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

@Florian, did you check if the version in jaunty-proposed helps with this problem?

[Florian Hars (florian-hars)]

Jean-Baptiste Lallement schrieb:
> @Florian, did you check if the version in jaunty-proposed helps with
> this problem?

No, I have no jaunty installation anymore.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for following up. I'm closing this report due to your last comment.
Don't hesitate to submit any new bug.