Package Manager error

[Joe Gunto]

The backend took too much time to process the synchronous request - you need to fork!
This was given as details when I clicked on "more detail"

I guess the package is the Package Manager, but I don't know for sure
I have been having the error message pop up since upgrading from Ubuntu 7.10 thru 8.04 thru 8.10, and finally to
Ubuntu 9.04.

I didn't expect anything to happen, but the error message has popped up since I updated. I had moved my Ubuntu
computer into another location in my house, and when booting up after hooking up all the wires, router, printer, etc.,the
screen would not come to the correct setting. I have a Samsung flatscreen monitor that had been working at 1440x900, but all I could get was everything onscreen crammed into the top half of the screen and stretched so far from side to side I couldn't see the part of the screen I needed to get to the System menu to reset the screen size. I was not able to even navigate on the screen. I had to start with a new install of Ubuntu. A 7.10 install cd was all I had, since my other upgrades were done using the update distribution system. I tried several times to just download and burn a cd or dvd with Ubuntu 9.04, but was never able to burn a disc I could boot from and install from. After all the upgrading of the distributions I went through, my system seems to be working okay, but I continually get the error message from the Package Manager. I have installed upgrades which appeared on my toolbar and received the error message, and I think my system has automatically installed upgrades which left the error message on my screen when I turned on the screen later. I leave my system on all the time, and just turn the screen off when I leave.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[delance (olivier-delance)]

The package for sure is not firefox!
Sorry, I do not know if it is update-manager or ubiquity.

[Scott Testerman (scott-testerman)]

It appears you have some other problems with your system as well, but in regards to the Package Manager error message, please take a look at Bug #272410 to see if this might be the same problem. I hesitate to mark this as a duplicate since you've indicated firefox-3.0 as the problem package, but I do agree with delance that it is likely not a firefox-3.0 error unless the message is presented *only* when you upgrade/start/use firefox.

[Joe Gunto (tujfam4)]

Thanks for contacting me about this bug. I agree with you and Delance that
 this is not a Firefox bug. I had come to that conclusion on my own after
 posting the question, but didn't know what to do about it. I tried
reinstalling the Package Manager package, and that didn't help. I just
gave up. I don't know how to repair any of the packages other than
reinstalling them. I don't know what ubiquity is, so I just live with
the error message popping up all the time. Another person commented that
clicking on "OK" to get rid of the message, and retrying the updates seems
to work after a while. That is what I have been doing also. If a fix becomes
available that I understand how to do, I will fix the problem on my machine.
Thanks for keeping me updated. It is obvious I am not the only person
having the problem, so I will try to stay apprised of what is happening
with it, and make the fix when it is available.

---- Scott Testerman <email address hidden> wrote:
> It appears you have some other problems with your system as well, but in
> regards to the Package Manager error message, please take a look at Bug
> #272410 to see if this might be the same problem. I hesitate to mark
> this as a duplicate since you've indicated firefox-3.0 as the problem
> package, but I do agree with delance that it is likely not a firefox-3.0
> error unless the message is presented *only* when you upgrade/start/use
> firefox.
>
> --
> Package Manager error
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/378062
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.

[Scott Testerman (scott-testerman)]

Thanks for updating the information. Marking this as a duplicate of Bug #272410. You can follow further developments there.