Software Updater console panel height only shows one line
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When using Software Updater, you can view details of an update in progress.
By clicking the expander arrow, a console panel should appear, and the Software Updater windows expands in order to show the full multi-line console.
However, the console panel is only one character high.
The rest of the window below the console is simply gray (or whatever your theme shows as a background color).
The console appears as a black bar, and you can see some flashes of text as the update proceeds.
This was an issue in Ubuntu 16.10, 17.04 and now 17.10 as well.
Please note that I am using Liberaton Mono 9 font as my mono-spaced font. (However, since Updater runs with root privileges, I have noted in the past that the font used is the standard system mono-spaced font, not the user specified font, so this may not have relevance to this issue).
I suspect this has something to do with the gtk library that is used to render the console window in update-manager. The frame, that the console sits in, may need to be set to "expand" when vertical space is available.
Also note, that I experienced this issue using Xorg.
Description: Ubuntu 17.10
Release: 17.10
update-manager:
Installed: 1:17.10.11
Candidate: 1:17.10.11
Version table:
*** 1:17.10.11 500
500 http://
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: update-manager 1:17.10.11
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Mon Oct 23 12:18:16 2017
GsettingsChanges:
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InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-22 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10.0 2017.10.19 amd64 "Custom Artful Aardvark"
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.