update-manager wrongly requires the presence of /home
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager-core
Release: 9.04
apt-cache policy update-manager-core
update-
Installed: 1:0.111.9
Candidate: 1:0.111.9
Version table:
*** 1:0.111.9 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
1:0.111.7 0
500 http://
When I start update-manager, and press the Install updates button, an error message is shown in in the shell complaining about not finding /home.
The reason is that I have no /home directory, that is mounted only via autofs, but not in this network where my computer was connected.
The solution was to patch /usr/lib/
# for d in ["/","/
for d in ["/","/
After that, update worked fine.
Sorry that the issue got unattended at the time of report. Please feel free to reopen by marking the status as "new" if you see this in current versions of update-manager.