update-manager crashed with OSError in _get_application_for_package(): [Errno 5] Input/output error
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
New
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I started update-manager with "gksu update-manager" from an i3 environment. The update manager downloaded the updates okay, but it seemed to hang while installing one of the kernel packages. I did a little poking around with strace. update-manager was waiting for a Perl child process to finish. The Perl process seemed to be stuck doing a read (fd 3, if I remember correctly).
I got tired of waiting, so I killed the update manager window (alt-q) and rebooted.
After the system rebooted I logged in to the Xubuntu session. I started the update manager from the apps menu. I got an error pop-up from update manager window:
Package operation failed
The installation or removal of a software package failed.
[Settings...] [Try again][OK]
This was followed by a notice of a crash.
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.185
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 27 19:42:08 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/
GsettingsChanges:
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InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-17 (12 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130311.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.3
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitec
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/
PythonArgs: ['/usr/
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with OSError in _get_applicatio
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:
information type: | Private → Public |
tags: | removed: need-duplicate-check |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
After this bug was filed, I noticed another automatic bug report window, which was about the failure to install the kernel package mentioned in my original description. If I understood the report (and IIRC), the problem happened during the preinstall phase.
Unfortunately, apport-gtk crashed when I asked to submit this 2nd bug.