this is happening to me with Lubuntu 12.10.
Update manager runs in the background & alerts each week of updates.
I usually select 'remind me later'.
Then when I run Synaptic etc to add specific packages there is a crash.
It is then impossible to run the software updater to perform the 'pending upgrades', or Synaptic to add / remove packages.
I found a work-around from 'actionparsnip' that is a script to download from dropbox, purging apt-cache etc; will post a link.
Problem with this is that it seem to download a huge amount of data due to all packages being refreshed / re-fetched.
2nd time the crash occurred, the 'crash log' (which apport has sent to 'Ubuntu' automatically) gave me this specific bug reference.
Why is it occurring ? (I have another machine running Ubuntu 11.10 that has never exhibited this).
How to:
- recover without having to refresh all packages = big download..
- stop it happening on the Lubuntu machine (pending 'proper' fix).
thanks.
this is happening to me with Lubuntu 12.10.
Update manager runs in the background & alerts each week of updates.
I usually select 'remind me later'.
Then when I run Synaptic etc to add specific packages there is a crash.
It is then impossible to run the software updater to perform the 'pending upgrades', or Synaptic to add / remove packages.
I found a work-around from 'actionparsnip' that is a script to download from dropbox, purging apt-cache etc; will post a link.
Problem with this is that it seem to download a huge amount of data due to all packages being refreshed / re-fetched.
2nd time the crash occurred, the 'crash log' (which apport has sent to 'Ubuntu' automatically) gave me this specific bug reference.
Why is it occurring ? (I have another machine running Ubuntu 11.10 that has never exhibited this).
How to:
- recover without having to refresh all packages = big download..
- stop it happening on the Lubuntu machine (pending 'proper' fix).
thanks.