Update-manager does not show up. Ubuntu Feisty.

[Filiprino]

When I click on the "there are X updates available", it does not do nothing. Nothing happens. The same when trying to open it from System->Administration.
Synaptic and apt work OK.

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

Not a rosetta bug, re-assigning to ubuntu

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Rejected for Rosetta upstream.

Filiprino, can you provide us with more information?

What is the version of update-manager? Of your Ubuntu?

Also, did you use apt-get/synaptic to update & dist-upgrade today?

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

huh, by the way, you should click on the update manager's icon, not on the pop-up.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This smeels like another duplicate of bug #88498

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

guess you meant bug # 88104 or 88114. Yes, it does look like.

[Filiprino (filiprino)]

I actually click on the icon, sorry if I didn't explain it clearly. And yes, I did the apt-get update and dist-upgrade. Before doing so update-manager kept crashing, but now it simply does not show up.
I have to add I dist-upgraded from Edgy (apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade with feisty repositories).
My version of update manager is (I got the package version from synaptic):
update-manager: 0.57.2
update-notifier: 0.56

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Yes, these versions match the current.

Can you please try to run it from the command line?

Then, please post back the results (and, hopefully, the errors).

[Filiprino (filiprino)]

I ran update-manager from command line, and I got the following error:
filiprino@kiwi:~$ update-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 32, in <module>
    from UpdateManager.UpdateManager import UpdateManager
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 38, in <module>
    import apt
ImportError: No module named apt

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

This error matches a bug that popped up yesterday. For you to recover update-manager and companions, please open a command prompt (gnome-terminal, konsole, or equivalent) and enter:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Basically many of the apt-related utilities are broken, due to a problem in python-apt. See bug # 88104 for details.