I logged into a 3D Unity session on a Oneiric i386 system with update-manager 1:0.152.14 and was soon informed that the Update Manager had crashed.
I do not have any more information about this problem, except that a crash in oneconf occurred twice shortly thereafter, which I could not report due to outdated packages. I suspect the oneconf crash is unrelated to this crash in check-new-release-gtk.
This resembles, but is probably not the same bug as, bug 721421, bug 729387, bug 730569, and perhaps others. Bug 730569 is fixed; if this bug has a similar cause, perhaps it could be similarly fixed.
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.152.14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 17 12:42:30 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release-gtk
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release-gtk
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release-gtk']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: check-new-release-gtk crashed with RuntimeError in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Gtk.py: Gtk couldn't be initialized
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-18 (61 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.