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update-manager package

update-manager crashed with RuntimeError in <module>()

Bug #210009 reported by Iain Buclaw on 2008-04-01

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #197581: update-manager crashed with RuntimeError in <module>() : RuntimeError: could not open display.It should display a warning when $DISPLAY is not set.. Edit Remove

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

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

Presumably because of a recent update.

I log in and I get several reported crash errors.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 27 21:45:20 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.87.14
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.5 /usr/bin/update-manager -d
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager', '-d']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with RuntimeError in <module>()
Traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 43, in <module>
gtk.init_check()
RuntimeError: could not open display
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-12-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev video