Ubuntu
update-manager package

update-manager "show details" only opens a 1 line display

Bug #1649957 reported by Simon Lambourn on 2016-12-14

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1623856: Scrolled Windows in update-manager are too small to read. Edit Remove

This bug affects 12 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

When I click on the "details" option while installing software updates, the window expands to a good size but the actual terminal display (showing apt or dpkg output) is limited to only 1 line in height, so you can't really see what is going on. Expanding the window doesn't affect the size of the terminal display.

Expected behaviour: the terminal display showing the output should expand to fill the window size, so you can read more than one line of what's happening.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: update-manager 1:16.10.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-30.32-generic 4.8.6
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Dec 14 16:55:44 2016
GsettingsChanges:
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'569'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'815'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1481732940'
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-14 (60 days ago)

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Simon Lambourn (simon-lambourn-o) wrote on 2016-12-14:

Aptdaemon.txt Edit (6.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt.txt Edit (70.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (13.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt.txt Edit (7.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt.txt Edit (75.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (33.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (115 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2016-12-15:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Jeff Van Epps (lordbah) wrote on 2016-12-15:

I've had this for at least 4 weeks with 16.04.1. It seems like it started after I had to downgrade nvidia-* due to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-304/+bug/1639180 and tried various things like installing gnome-flashback and Gnome3. To be clear Unity is what I select on the login screen.