Crash in pm.GetArchives()

[DrC]

Binary package hint: update-manager

See attached screen shot. It looks as though the upgrade left some old incompatible packages in place.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 5 21:08:23 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.126.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[DrC (drcowsley)]

Update Manager subsequently ran normally from the System-Administration menu.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Could you please check /var/crash and attach the output of "ls -l /var/crash" ? Could you please also attach any file in there that contains "update-manager" in its name?

[DrC (drcowsley)]

As requested.

Cheers - and thanks...

Chris

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Here is the error:

PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager', '--no-focus-on-map']
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 581, in on_button_install_clicked
     self.cache.checkFreeSpace()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py", line 1051, in checkFreeSpace
     for (dir, size) in [(archivedir, self.requiredDownload),
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/UpdateManager/Core/MyCache.py", line 72, in requiredDownload
     pm.GetArchives(fetcher, self._list, self._records)
 SystemError: E:I wasn't able to locate file for the libpython2.6 package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.

Was this a one time problem? Or does it happen repeatedly?

[DrC (drcowsley)]

Was this a one time problem?

Yes.

The problem appeared on accepting the first routine invitation to update. After collecting the evidence, System-Administration-Update Manager ran successfully with no user input other than default responses.

I think there have been further routine updates. If so, they have been error free. Sorry to be vague but I have three different versions current in different places.

Chris