Comment 22 for bug 446552

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Henning Moll (drscott) wrote :

A summary of my observations:

My situation:
Normal actions in update-manager (1:0.111.9) work. I am able to get normal package updates. So in this part, update-manger handles my auth-proxy correctly. Without the credentials, the proxy would not handle any requests. The credentials are stored in gconf. I always checked the correctness of environment variable http_proxy before running a command from command line.

The jaunty-proposed package 1:0.111.10 does not solve my problem. The notification "a new version of ubuntu..." is not shown.
The lucid-released package 1:0.130 (which i installed for testing on jaunty) does not solve my problem. Notification not shown.

Both of Michaels patches (applied on 1:0.111.9) solve my problem for the gui update-manager. But both did not help for do-release-update (this is in contrast to observations made by jdobry)

The reason for failing on do-release-update is, that the problem is - at least partially - independend of url_downloadable. On problem exists in /usr/share/pyshared/UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py around line 251. The code generates
407: ('Proxy Authentication Required', 'You must authenticate with this proxy before proceeding.'), So i assume that the fix of the patch has to be applied on more places.

Should the bug be reopended for lucid?