Update manager crashes if ~/.update-manager/* isn't owned by the user.

[Andrew Melo]

Binary package hint: update-manager

chown ~/.update-manager to root, and it crashes.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 10 10:58:50 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: update-manager 1:0.57.8
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/update-manager
ProcCwd: /home/amelo
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py", line 171, in download
     f=open(self.METARELEASE_FILE,"w+")
 IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/amelo/.update-manager/meta-release'
Uname: Linux amelo-desktop 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Christof Krüger (christofkr)]

Chowning to root was not enough but just making ~/update-manager/meta-release not readable by the current user was, so you could just chmod it to 0000 or something alike.

However, update-manager seemed to work even after the crash (apport spawned). Thus, I don't think it's critical, but update-manager should handle it more gracefully anyway.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

This problem is fixed in my local tree and the fix will be part of the next upload.

Cheers,
 Michael