Ubuntu
software-properties package

can't uncheck unsupported updates in regular ubuntu

Bug #826539 reported by Matt Hanyok on 2011-08-15

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #819793: Can't uncheck proposed or usupported boxes in Kubuntu updates sorftware sources. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	software-properties (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I've seen bug reports for this problem in Kubuntu but I'm using regular Ubuntu and having a similar issue. I enabled the "proposed" and "backports" repositories and now I can't uncheck the "backports" one. Though it isn't actually showing a check mark on the box, it just fills it in orange instead of filling it in orange and placing the check there.

When running "sudo software-properties-gtk" from the command line I get this message:

WARNING: can not get name for '<CellRendererText object at 0x2ca5d20 (GtkCellRendererText at 0x2e84900)>'
WARNING: can not get name for '<TextBuffer object at 0x2f0d280 (GtkTextBuffer at 0x2891100)>'

Dunno if that's relevant or not.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: software-properties-gtk 0.80.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 15 00:05:57 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-properties
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Matt Hanyok (matthew-hanyok) wrote on 2011-08-15:

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Matt Hanyok (matthew-hanyok) wrote on 2011-08-15:

I'd like to add that going in and manually editing /etc/apt/sources.list works to disable the repositories; then the items show as unchecked in the software sources application. So I'm guessing the problem lies somewhere in the UI and not the sources list.

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2011-10-15:

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 #819793, 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.