Activity log for bug #160805

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2007-11-07 19:54:24 Bob Lewis bug added bug
2007-11-14 21:23:09 Brian Murray update-manager: importance Undecided Wishlist
2007-11-14 21:23:09 Brian Murray update-manager: status New Confirmed
2008-07-20 13:40:48 Sarah Kowalik description Binary package hint: update-manager This may actually be an underlying cause of several other bugs, but I'm not in a position to investigate, so... The problem is that if you use update-manager to do an upgrade (in my case) from Gutsy to Hoary *and* you have PYTHONPATH set to use a library (even a local one) for the previous python version (2.5 in my case), necessary python modules will fail to load and the installation will break. Doing the installation with PYTHONPATH unset, everything works fine. I might suggest the solution would be for update-manager to run python with the "-E" option to ignore any environment variable settings. Binary package hint: update-manager This may actually be an underlying cause of several other bugs, but I'm not in a position to investigate, so... The problem is that if you use update-manager to do an upgrade (in my case) from Gutsy to Hardy *and* you have PYTHONPATH set to use a library (even a local one) for the previous python version (2.5 in my case), necessary python modules will fail to load and the installation will break. Doing the installation with PYTHONPATH unset, everything works fine. I might suggest the solution would be for update-manager to run python with the "-E" option to ignore any environment variable settings.
2010-02-17 00:31:34 Rolf Leggewie tags gutsy2hardy
2010-02-17 00:32:00 Rolf Leggewie tags gutsy2hardy
2010-02-17 00:32:14 Rolf Leggewie update-manager (Ubuntu): status Confirmed Incomplete
2010-02-17 00:32:14 Rolf Leggewie update-manager (Ubuntu): assignee Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)
2010-05-01 02:50:45 Rolf Leggewie update-manager (Ubuntu): status Incomplete Won't Fix