Message "daemon died" appeared while running update-manager [11.04]

[Peter Belew]

Binary package hint: update-manager

[ NOTE: This now affects Natty 11.04 Beta-1 as of 2010-12-21 ]

While trying to update this system a few minutes ago, Update Manager showed a list of updates, and then shortly after I clicked on the button for starting the downloads, the program froze after displaying a message saying that the "deamon died".

Ubuntu version and kernel version
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu karmic (development branch)"
Linux lightning 2.6.31-11-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 2 11:55:55 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
model name : VIA Samuel 2
cpu MHz : 798.000

This Ubuntu version was a fresh install from an alpha-6 CD, with frequent updates up to today.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 5 10:52:40 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.125.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:4745): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:4745): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:4828): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:4840): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-panel:4827): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_x11_colormap_foreign_new: assertion `GDK_IS_VISUAL (visual)' failed

[Peter Belew (peterbe)]

in `ps aux` output, I find

peter 5193 2.8 9.1 86332 43704 ? S 10:22 1:16 /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/update-manager

So I killed it.

[Peter Belew (peterbe)]

I then tried running update-manager again. Both this time and the previous time I noticed that the program requested authentication twice, which is odd.

After clicking on "Install Updates", a message popped up 'Waiting for other tasks', presumably the dead daemon.

peter 23332 7.3 8.9 85676 42640 ? S 11:10 0:42 /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/update-manager

[Peter Belew (peterbe)]

Then I tried to run `apt-get update` and found there's still a lock

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

which is not surprising since update-manager died while holding the lock.

[Peter Belew (peterbe)]

After deleting the lock file, I was able to complete the update with apt-get.

[Peter Belew (peterbe)]

This happened this morning while I was attempting to update on my Averatec 3280 laptop.

Ubuntu version and kernel version
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu karmic (development branch)"
Linux cupid 2.6.31-11-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 2 11:55:55 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Again, the update-manager process froze, and reported that the daemon for it had died.

[Peter Belew (peterbe)]

State of the update-manager process:

peter 2610 1.1 9.9 170056 47624 ? Sl 08:08 0:21 /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/update-manager

I

[to be removed (liw)]

It seems it was aptdaemon that crashed. Reassigning.

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

@Peter: Have you been notified of a crash of aptdaemon by Ubuntu?

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Could you please run in a terminal the following command before you start update-manager and copy the output here if the error occurs again? Thanks

sudo /usr/sbin/aptd -td

[al1321om (al1321om)]

I get the same error here is my output from

sudo /usr/sbin/aptd -td

19:44:43 AptDaemon [INFO]: Initializing daemon
19:44:43 AptDaemon [DEBUG]: Setting up worker thread
19:44:43 AptDaemon [DEBUG]: Daemon was initialized
19:44:43 AptDaemon [DEBUG]: Waiting for calls
19:45:33 AptDaemon [DEBUG]: Creating transaction
19:45:33 AptDaemon [DEBUG]: Set() was called: Locale, en_US.UTF8
19:45:33 AptDaemon [DEBUG]: Set() was called: Terminal, /dev/pts/2
19:45:33 AptDaemon [DEBUG]: Set() was called: DebconfSocket, /tmp/aptdaemon-SfP4xP/debconf.socket
19:45:33 AptDaemon.Trans [INFO]: CommitPackages() was called: dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('s')), dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('s')), dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('s')), dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('s')), dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'empathy-doc'), dbus.String(u'kdelibs5-data'), dbus.String(u'libpostproc51'), dbus.String(u'gconf-defaults-service'), dbus.String(u'krdc'), dbus.String(u'kwalletmanager'), dbus.String(u'libglu1-mesa'), dbus.String(u'libqscintilla2-5'), dbus.String(u'libc6-dev'), dbus.String(u'libss2'), dbus.String(u'totem'), dbus.String(u'python-aptdaemon'), dbus.String(u'libboost-date-time1.38.0'), dbus.String(u'indicator-messages'), dbus.String(u'pulseaudio-module-gconf'), dbus.String(u'libkpathsea4'), dbus.String(u'libkdepim4'), dbus.String(u'amarok-utils'), dbus.String(u'hplip-data'), dbus.String(u'gnome-media'), dbus.String(u'couchdb'), dbus.String(u'gnome-session-canberra'), dbus.String(u'gvfs-backends'), dbus.String(u'libakonadiprivate1'), dbus.String(u'libdrm-intel1'), dbus.String(u'ibus-m17n'), dbus.String(u'libxrender1'), dbus.String(u'fglrx-modaliases'), dbus.String(u'liblircclient0'), dbus.String(u'kdepim-wizards'), dbus.String(u'libempathy-gtk28'), dbus.String(u'apport-gtk'), dbus.String(u'libgphoto2-2'), dbus.String(u'ure'), dbus.String(u'scim-modules-socket'), dbus.String(u'kubuntu-default-settings'), dbus.String(u'libgl1-mesa-glx'), dbus.String(u'python-gtkhtml2'), dbus.String(u'python-qt4-dbus'), dbus.String(u'gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs'), dbus.String(u'e2fslibs'), dbus.String(u'language-pack-gnome-en'), dbus.String(u'human-theme'), dbus.String(u'libgtk2-perl'), dbus.String(u'hpijs'), dbus.String(u'xserver-xorg-video-intel'), dbus.String(u'grub-common'), dbus.String(u'usb-creator-common'), dbus.String(u'libncurses5'), dbus.String(u'python-central'), dbus.String(u'python2.6-minimal'), dbus.String(u'gnome-panel-data'), dbus.String(u'libpolkit-gtk-1-0'), dbus.String(u'libgtkhtml-editor-common'), dbus.String(u'gconf2-common'), dbus.String(u'libxml2-utils'), dbus.String(u'python-sip4'), dbus.String(u'libempathy-gtk-common'), dbus.String(u'empathy'), dbus.String(u'gstreamer0.10-alsa'), dbus.String(u'openoffice.org-writer'), dbus.String(u'mysql-common'), dbus.String(u'update-manager'), dbus.String(u'python-apport'), dbus.String(u'libpcre3'), dbus.String(u'libevdocument1'), dbus.String(u'telepathy-idle'), dbus.String(u'openoffice.org-emailmerge'), dbus.String(u'libevview1'), dbus.String(u'xserver-xorg-input-evdev'), dbus.String(u'hplip-cups'), dbus.String(u'kdepim-kresources'), dbus.String(u'gnash-common'), dbus.String(u'policykit-1...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Peter Belew (peterbe)]

This is now happening on 11.04 beta-1, updated as of today, on my Averatec 3280 laptop.

Some version information:

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
Linux cupid 2.6.37-10-generic #24-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 16 17:52:40 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
model name : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+
cpu MHz : 1600.000

$ apt-show-versions update-manager
update-manager/natty uptodate 1:0.145.10

I had this happen twice since last night. On running Update Manager, the program displayed a list of packages which had been updated (equivalent to 'apt-get update'). When I clicked on the install button, there was a long delay, and finally a dialog popped up telling me that "the daemon has died". After that, I was able to run "apt-get dist-upgrade" to complete the upgrade. I have been updating 11.04 almost daily since the beta-1 release.

Regarding comment #9: Yes.
Regarding comment #10: I'll do that next time I run update-manager.

[Peter Belew (peterbe)]

I tried #10 - here is the last part of the output. There were 2 packages to update, and I clicked on the install button. After a few minutes, the program just froze up, and I used the Gnome tool for removing a frozen app to close it.

13:30:22 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: Progress, 101
13:30:22 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: ProgressDownload, ('http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/natty/universe/binary-i386/Packages.bz2', 'download-fetching', 'Packages', 6006552L, 3329656L, '')
13:30:22 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: StatusDetails, Downloading Packages
13:30:22 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: ProgressDetails, (56, 66, 10385613.0, 12977077.0, 163752.2397593863, 6)
13:30:22 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: Progress, 101
13:30:22 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: ProgressDownload, ('http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/natty/universe/binary-i386/Packages.bz2', 'download-fetching', 'Packages', 6006552L, 3415088L, '')
13:30:22 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: StatusDetails, Downloading Packages
13:30:23 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: ProgressDetails, (56, 66, 10469597.0, 12977077.0, 163752.2397593863, 6)
13:30:23 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: Progress, 101
13:30:23 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: ProgressDownload, ('http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/natty/universe/binary-i386/Packages.bz2', 'download-fetching', 'Packages', 6006552L, 3499072L, '')
13:30:23 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: StatusDetails, Downloading Packages
13:30:23 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: ProgressDetails, (56, 66, 10554525.0, 12977077.0, 163752.2397593863, 6)
13:30:23 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: Progress, 101
13:30:23 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: ProgressDownload, ('http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/natty/universe/binary-i386/Packages.bz2', 'download-fetching', 'Packages', 6006552L, 3584000L, '')
13:30:23 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: StatusDetails, Downloading Packages
13:30:24 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: ProgressDetails, (56, 66, 10639013.0, 12977077.0, 163752.2397593863, 6)
13:30:24 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: Progress, 101
13:30:24 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: ProgressDownload, ('http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/natty/universe/binary-i386/Packages.bz2', 'download-fetching', 'Packages', 6006552L, 3668488L, '')
13:30:24 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: StatusDetails, Downloading Packages
13:30:24 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: ProgressDetails, (56, 66, 10722997.0, 12977077.0, 163752.2397593863, 6)
13:30:24 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: Progress, 101
13:30:24 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChanged: ProgressDownload, ('http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/natty/universe/binary-i386/Packages.bz2', 'download-fetching', 'Packages', 6006552L, 3752472L, '')
13:30:24 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Emitting PropertyChan...

[Peter Belew (peterbe)]

After that, I used apt-get dist-upgrade to install the updated packages:

libindicate-gtk2 libindicate4

[Peter Belew (peterbe)]

I repeated the experiment a few minutes ago - this time redirecting output as follows:

aptd -td 2> apd.log

I started this about 15:04.

I then ran update-manager at about 15:06. There were a number of packages (I think 9) to be installed. Then, around 15:12, I clicked on the install button.

The application seemed to freeze up again. Finally, around 15:17, I tried to close update-manager. The program would not close, so again I used the Gnome "Force Quit" applet to close update-manager. This seems to be shown in the log file as

15:17:04 AptDaemon.Trans [DEBUG]: Removing transaction

I then used "apt-get dist-upgrade" to install the programs. "aptd -d" was still running, but there was no output to the log file due to this run of apt-get.

I then exited from aptd. I have attached the stderr output of aptd.

[tekstr1der (tekstr1der)]

Still seeing this on fully updated natty 11.04. Was this bug abandoned or assumed fixed elsewhere?

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #441686, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.
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