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update-manager package

  1. Bug #188957
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 188957

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Richard Hurt (rnhurt) wrote : Re: update manager hangs in hardy final

OK, I think I might have found it. Looking through this <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=613521&page=2">thread</a> it appears as though the local machine's entry in /etc/hosts is not quite right. My /etc/hosts was originally:

    127.0.0.1 localhost
    127.0.1.1 Udesktop.example.com

And I changed it to:

    127.0.0.1 localhost
    127.0.0.1 Udesktop Udesktop.example.com

After this change I killed and restarted Update Manager and it worked without problems. I'm guessing there should be a bug opened with Update Manager so that if the hosts name cannot be determined it will at least throw a dialog box up to complain. Hanging the system just because it cant resolve its own name is not a good thing.