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  1. Bug #74190
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 74190

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sardion (ubuntu-sardion) wrote : Re: [feisty] [apt] command line apt-get/aptitude breaks update-manager

Further messing about shows that if I forcibly chmod extended_states to allow a+rw then all seems well.

This bug seems to be that if aptitude is run as root from the command line, it creates extended_states in such a way that update-manager cannot access it.