update-manager crashed with GError in restore_state()

[Torstein Knutsen]

Binary package hint: update-manager

in terminal, root user, tried to start update-manager -d, but It just gave me this output, and no program window appered:

root@x300:/usr/src/freeswitch.trunk# update-manager -d
warning: could not initiate dbus
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 91, in <module>
    app = UpdateManager(data_dir)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 431, in __init__
    self.restore_state()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 863, in restore_state
    expanded = self.gconfclient.get_bool("/apps/update-manager/show_details")
glib.GError: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
root@x300:/usr/src/freeswitch.trunk#

Sorry if this has been reported earlier, bu I could not see it..

Thanx
Torstein

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: update-manager 1:0.93.25
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
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_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager', '-d']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with GError in restore_state()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
UserGroups:

[Torstein Knutsen (torstein-knutsen)]

It crashes the same with "update-manager" (without the "-d" ) from (su) terminal, but I can start update manager fine from "system->Update-manager"

also from user terminal (not root) I can start fine with "sudo update-manager"

So it seems that it only affects starting in root user in terminal ..
Hope this helps...