update manager lines are unreadable

[Fernando Miguel]

Binary package hint: update-manager

update manager, in intrepid, lines are unreadable.
please see screenshot.

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

it seems that the last update has fixed this.

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

well, it just showed up again with today's update.

please fix this.

thanks in advance

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

update-manager (1:0.91.10) intrepid; urgency=low

  * UpdateManager/Core/DistUpgradeFetcherCore.py:
    - improved error handling for people who run
      /tmp with noexec (LP: #219518)
  * DistUpgrade/ReleaseAnnouncement:
    - fixes in the announcement text (thanks to
      Brian Murray, LP: #250693)
  * DistUpgrade/removal_blacklist.cfg:
    - remove nvidia-glx from the removal blacklist,
      the naming schema changed in intrepid and the
      old packages need to go way (LP: #249329)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden>  Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:04:34 +0200

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

thanks for your bugreport.

That looks like a bug in the video driver, what xorg driver do you use?

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

> That looks like a bug in the video driver, what xorg driver do you use?

nvidia binary 173.
Today update-manager looks fine.
I would close this ticket, but i'm afraid it will appear again, as it as happen in the past.

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[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for this additional information.

Could you watch out for it and when it happens again, please switch to a different theme and see if that helps? I strongly suspect this is not a update-manager but a theme and/or video driver bug.

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

Michael it just reappear.

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Here is my list of changes from yesterday:

apt-listchanges: changelogs
 Date: Yesterday 18:00:00

python2.4 (2.4.5-5ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
    - Include pregenerated documentation.
    - Build the -doc package from this source.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:37:40 +0200

python2.4 (2.4.5-5) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update to 20080731, taken from the 2.4 release branch, only change:
    - Fix issue #2620, CVE-2008-3142, overflow checking when allocating or
      reallocating memory was not always being done properly in some python
      types and extension modules.
  * CVE-2008-3143 was fixed in 2.4.5-1.
  * Fix issues #2588, #2589, CVE-2008-3144, fix potential integer underflow
    and overflow conditions in the PyOS_vsnprintf C API function.
  * Fix CVE-2008-2315, more overflow checking in extension modules.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:28:47 +0200

python2.4 (2.4.5-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix sections for documents registered with doc-base.
  * python2.4-minimal: Recommend python2.4 (suggested by Neil McGovern).

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:15:21 +0200

python2.5 (2.5.2-10ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
    - Include the pregenerated documentation.
    - Set priority of python2.5-minimal to required.
    - Build python2.5-doc from the pregenerated documentation.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:46:11 +0200

python2.5 (2.5.2-10) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update to 20080731, taken from the 2.5 release branch, only change:
    - Fix issue #2620, CVE-2008-3142, overflow checking when allocating or
      reallocating memory was not always being done properly in some python
      types and extension modules.
  * Issues #2588, #2589, CVE-2008-3144, fixed in 2.5.2-7.
  * Fix CVE-2008-2315, more overflow checking in extension modules.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:14:36 +0200

python2.5 (2.5.2-9) unstable; urgency=low

  * python2.5-minimal: Recommend python2.5 (suggested by Neil McGovern).
  * Update to 20080726, taken from the 2.5 release branch.
    - Fix issues #2242, #3360.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:34:50 +0200

python2.5 (2.5.2-8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update to 20080712, taken from the 2.5 release branch.
    - Fix issues #1792, #2906, #3088, #3110, #3116, #3117, #3157, #3243.
  * Fix bashisms in Tools/faqwiz/move-faqwiz.sh. Closes: #489649.
  * Fix issues with turkish locale. Closes: #489740.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:30:19 +0200

apt-xapian-index (0.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added --batch-mode to produce machine-readable output, to use for GUI
    feedback in package managers. Thanks to Petr Rockai.
  * Reformatted debian/copyright
  * Shortened short description

 -- Enrico Zini <email address hidden> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:57:32 +0200

apt-xapian-index (0.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * Upload properly.

 -- Enrico Zini <email address hidden> Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:55:50 +0100

apt-xapi...

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

it seems to be quite stable until now. if i see it reappearing until release, i'll let you know.

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

it just reappeared today.

update-manager: version 0.93.4

[Zartan (mattik-deactivatedaccount)]

I have same problem. I didn't find this bug first. My is bug 267209. I'm using Ubuntu Intrepid on Asus M6000 Laptop. My graphic card is Ati Mobility Radeon X700. I can confirm this bug.

[Heki (jhfischer)]

Same here!

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Could somebody please try changing to a different theme when they experience this bug? Thanks in advance.

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

Right now mine is fine, but I'll do as you requested next time (if we ever get one)

[Zartan (mattik-deactivatedaccount)]

I tried change theme but it didn't help. Only possible is change default font maybe.

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

Mine is still fine.
Matti was your's already "damage" or did it just started in the last few days?

[Zartan (mattik-deactivatedaccount)]

I changed theme to Ubuntu Clear and back. After this all is showed right. Maybe this bug can be closed now.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I experienced this bug today when performing an update with Intrepid. Incidentally, it was the second time I had run update-manager in my session. The first run was a partial upgrade. I was also using the Human theme.

I've attached a screenshot of my desktop.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I've been able to recreate this using the following steps on Intrepid:

1) Run update manager
2) Install updates
3) Kill update-manager 'sudo pkill update-manager'
4) Start update-manager again
5) Press Check (I'm not positive this is necessary)

The package information will now be compressed. I believe switching the theme to anything fixes it.

[Alejandro J. Cura (alecu)]

I briefly experienced the same problem, on Intrepid. There was only one package to be installed, and I clicked on the "Check" button, and it appeared after it checked the repos and found a few packages more. See the screenshot.

It happened only once and I took the screenshot. I closed Update Manager and restarted and everything was fine again. I cannot reproduce it, not even following the 5 steps above.

ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M, fglrx driver.
GTK+ widgets using the standard "Human" theme, font resolution set to 89 dpi.

[Kiwinote (kiwinote)]

This bug still occurs in jaunty.