update manager crashed when clicking on 'description of the update' without network connection

Bug #334002 reported by alm
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-manager (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

After logging in, update-manager popped up with a few updates. The first one was ironically apport. I clicked on 'description of update' to see the changelog, and the attached apport error appeared. I did not have a network connection at that time.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: update-manager 1:0.98.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.5 /usr/bin/update-manager --no-focus-on-map
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager', '--no-focus-on-map']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with NameError in get_changelog()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-8-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

Revision history for this message
alm (alm) wrote :
Changed in update-manager:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in update-manager:
assignee: nobody → mvo
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.100

---------------
update-manager (1:0.100) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]
  * DistUpgrade/cdromupgrade:
    - if cdromupgrade is run with a relative path we will fail to find the
      installer components and error out. Ensure that the path is absolute.
      (LP: #335360)

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * fix crash when help is not avaialble (LP: #338098)
  * data/glade/UpdateManager.glade:
    - remove the "Keep your system up-to-date" text (design team,
      LP: #336800)
  * fix crash when no network is avaialble for changelog fetching
    (LP: #334002)
  * debian/control:
    - add conflict against update-manager-kde to update-manager-hildon
      (LP: #333464)
  * UpdateManager/Core/MyCache.py:
    - show proper urls for sources with epochs (LP: #328164), thanks
      to Richie
  * UpdateManager/ChangelogViewer.py:
    - support copy to clipboard for URLs (LP: #85644), thanks to
      Richie
  * UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py:
    - disable fixed-hight mode, it can cause incorrect height
      calculation (thanks to Richie), LP: #273184
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py:
    - do not allow gtk/kde upgrades over ssh session (LP: #322482)
  * merged aufs branch (disabled by default but useful for testing)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:25:55 +0100

Changed in update-manager:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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