update-manager crashed with AuthorizationFailed in commit()

[Yumi]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Authorisation was not requested. Just started the update manager gui. It listed 38 available updates for Maverick. Clicking on "Install Updates" normally the popup requests the root password. Instead, it resulted in it to "Building data structure" and the Error Message "Sorry, Update Manager closed unexpectetly" . The process is repeated every time even after restart.

Using Maverick Alpha3 (I believe)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.142.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-15.21-generic 2.6.35.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-15-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 16 08:53:38 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/update-manager
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with AuthorizationFailed in commit()
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev pulse pulse-access sambashare tape video

[Yumi (tempreg)]

Just to add: Sudo apt-get update works flawless

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Maverick reached EOL on 10 April, 2012.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

I've tried recreating this bug with Precise and was unable to, given the information you've provided. Please either a) upgrade and test or b) increase the verbosity of the steps to recreate it so we can try again.

Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for update-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]