update-manager crashed with DBusException in _run(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: 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.

[Curtis Knight]

Installed into virtualbox, first update was restricted drivers to install vbox kernel module, and this error happened on the second update to bring the machine fully up to date. Error was after install button was pressed after and update to sources.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.152.16
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.15-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CurrentDmesg.txt:
 [ 125.227508] hrtimer: interrupt took 18362388 ns
 [ 125.572176] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,commit=0
Date: Fri Sep 2 22:19:54 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110901)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/update-manager
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with DBusException in _run(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: 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.
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #626798, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Curtis Knight (knighcl)]

This September opened Oneiric bug is matching a duplicate from fixed in April Natty bug. I believe the parent bug is grabbing a significant number of duplicates that might not match as well.