It seems that the daemon died.

[typo]

Binary package hint: aptdaemon

I just was performing a normal update. The first time I entered the wrong password in the policykit dialog, but then the right one, then it started and later I got this error.

Error message in update-manager (lang=de-de):
Der Vorgang kann nicht überwacht oder gesteuert werden.

Die Verbindung zum Hintergrunddienst wurde unterbrochen. Höchstwahrscheinlich ist der Dienst abgestürzt.

Details:
It seems that the daemon died.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: aptdaemon 0.41+bzr646-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 12 11:55:49 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de:en
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: aptdaemon
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-17 (55 days ago)

[typo (gnomeuser8)]

After this error all updates were already installed. So the only problem for me was to click on the close button of the error dialog to get it away.

[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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