[Feisty] meta-release problem

[Julien Lavergne]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I click on the orange icon to install updates, and apport show me a report of update manager, but update-manager don't crash, and I updates my system normaly.

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/MetaRelease.py", line 167, in download
     f=open(self.METARELEASE_FILE,"w+")
 IOError: [Errno 13] Permission non accordée: '/home/gilir/.update-manager/meta-release'

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Have you started update-manager using sudo before?

Take a look at the permissions of the above file. Does it belong to root?

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

no, this bug appear without sudo. And this file belong to root :
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1636 2007-01-19 15:21 meta-release

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

update-manager needs sudo/root to do its job. when ran from the orange icon it should bring up a dialog asking for your password (the gksu dialog) if run from terminal gksudo or gksu should be needed of your not already in a # terminal. you can use sudo also but its not recommended for GTK apps.

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

I know that :)
But in Edgy, you can show the update-manager window without gksu/sudo. If you want to update/upgrade/refresh packages, you have the gksu dialog for password.

But it's not normal to have a apport message when you click on the orange icon. It's only that. And I don't change any rights on my files.

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Delete the corresponding file. Update-manager should work again. When did you upgrade to edgy? The file was created on 19th January. Did you run "sudo update-manager" on that day? Has it worked before?

Cheers,

Sebastian

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

I upgrade edgy before the 19th, but maybe I launch update-manager with sudo this day, to test with all this dbus/python issues.
I delete .update-manager in my /home and now I don't have apport report :)

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Out of curiosity, what are the permissions of the .update-manager directory in this case?

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

I added a workaround for this problem to my local tree and it will be part of the next upload.

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

permissions :
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-01-21 18:22 .update-manager