91-release-upgrade logs an error on first login on UEC setups

[Thierry Carrez]

Binary package hint: update-manager

update-manager-core 1:0.133.3

On first login on an Ubuntu Server Lucid beta1 UEC install, you get the following errors on the console:

/etc/update-motd.d/91-release-upgrade: 39: cannot create /var/lib/update-notifier/release-upgrade-available: directory nonexistent

/var/lib/update-notifier is created by update-notifier-common, but this package is missing from the UEC installs. It is however present in the regular server installs, brought indirectly by byobu.

I suppose this can be fixed in two ways: on the UEC seed level, or by creating a dependency between update-manager-core and update-notifier-common.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Seems thoroughly overkill to add a dependency just for this. We can just add that directory to update-manager-core so that the script always has it available.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.133.4

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update-manager (1:0.133.4) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py, DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeView.py:
    - detect pre-depends cycle and cleanly revert (LP: #516727)
      to the old system state
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py:
    - only ensure translations are kept if they are still downloadable,
      there is a lot of churn in the translations area so its not
      feasible to keep them all
    - when checking the kernel list from base-installer, also consider
      kernels that are marked install (LP: #540114)
    - check rdepends of all packages (including auto-removal ones)
      again ensure the removal blacklist is honored in all cases
      (LP: #540823)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py:
    - show progress information when searching for obsolete software
      (this can take a bit on a big install)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewNonInteractive.py:
    - fix crash in non-interactive mode (thanks to Andreas Hasenack)

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Ship /var/lib/update-notifier directory in update-manager-core, so that
    it's always there for 91-release-upgrade (LP: #540159).
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:57:18 +0100