update-manager does not install the packages if /home does not exist

[Khem Raj]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I have a ubuntu 9.04 uptodate system running on x86_64/amd64. update-manager does pop up when updates are available but nothing happens when install button is clicked.

The issue it that I do not have /home because the user homedirs are mounted over NIS/NFS which is an automout to /homes and not /home

To verify I created and empty dir /home and it started to work as usual.

Probably it should look at $HOME instead of looking for /home ?

[Khem Raj (khem-raj)]

Here is log

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 572, in on_button_install_clicked
    self.cache.checkFreeSpace()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py", line 946, in checkFreeSpace
    st = os.statvfs(d)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home'

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Still exists in Natty.