dialog box appears in wrong workspace, update-manager GUI appears frozen to user

[bcrowell]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I did an "update-manager -d" in a terminal window in workspace 1. It took quite a long time for the GUI to start up (maybe 30-60 seconds), and I thought it wasn't working. Meanwhile I switched to workspace 2. When the GUI did finally come up, it popped up in workspace 2. I went ahead and got the update going. When I came back later, the GUI appeared to be frozen in the middle of an install, at "installing the upgrade." The last message displayed was about a package that had been installed successfully. The GUI appeared to be frozen. I clicked around on it and couldn't get it to respond. In particular, I couldn't get it to respond to clicks on the triangle widget to open the black terminal window showing at what point it had frozen. Only later did I switch to a different workspace and realize that there was a modal dialog displayed in that workspace. I don't think the exact error is really relevant, but I've pasted it below.

The problem here is that the GUI isn't behaving consistently. It opens some dialogs in the workspace of the terminal window in which it was started, and others in the workspace I happened to be in when the software finished its (slow) startup.

This appears to be related to, but maybe not the same as, bugs 95327 and 16581. These all relate to problems with getting dialogs to pop up in the right workspace. The other two bugs are marked as having been fixed a long time ago.

==== error message =====

Could not install 'openoffice.org-filter-binfilter'
package openoffice.org-filter-binfilter is already installed and configured

The upgrade will continue but the 'openoffice.org-filter-binfilter' package may not be in a working state. Please consider submitting a bug report about it.
Could not install the upgrades

The upgrade is now aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state. A recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a).

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report.
E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.134.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.31-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 19 09:19:48 2010
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager

[dino99 (9d9)]

This version is no more supported

[bhavtesh.divecha (bhavtesh-divecha)]

Similar Observation of mine.
Using Ubuntu 16.04.1
 I had Clicked on FireFox Browser in Workspace 1
 Mouse cursor showed as processing & back to normal.
 Browser Didn't got opened & Hence Tried clicking Multiple Times.
 Still same.
 When Switched to Workspace 2, I found that multiple FireFox Browsers were opened.
 This is Bug & really needs the Fix.
 Observed with Multiple applications. Some opens in correct Workspace & some opens in other workspaces.