update-manager needs to depend on python-vte

Thanks for your bugreport.

Do you have python-vte installed? There is a missing dependency in dapper for it.

Thanks,
 Michael

I installed python-vte and the upgrade started nicely. I went away
from my computer and when I came back the screen was all black and I
couldn't kill anything. I had to powerdown and start everything over.
Luckily I could type some commands after this incident. There was
about ten dependency problems that were easily solved just by
installing them. One of them was libnewt0.52

Later it also complained something about sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75
but that disappeared after a couple of upgrades :)

Afetr about ten dist-upgrades I finally got my system running again
with all updates.

The upper panel was filled with unknown (gnome-feet) icons. BTW I
found one beside that show-desktop icons also. Everything else works
fine now.

I cannot really tell what's new in this but it feels nice and complete.

Thanks!
- Jukka

On 10/17/06, Michael Vogt <email address hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for your bugreport.
>
> Do you have python-vte installed? There is a missing dependency in
> dapper for it.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
> --
> update-manager -c -d (can't find DistUpgradeViewGtk)
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/66376
>

Thanks for this additional information. That sounds pretty serious. Could you please attach the files from /var/log/dist-upgrade/* to this bugreport so that I can try to debug the problem? Could you also please tell me if you use a screensaver with locking feature?

Thanks,
 Michael

No, I don't use that locking feature with my screensaver.

I have the same problem, but it's not about python-vte:

bzd@oysterhead:~$ gksu "update-manager -c -d"
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:17: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet
  warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)
extracting '/tmp/tmpmrGP6q/edgy.tar.gz'
authenticate '/tmp/tmpmrGP6q/edgy.tar.gz' against '/tmp/tmpmrGP6q/edgy.tar.gz.gpg'
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/tmpmrGP6q/DistUpgradeViewGtk.py", line 368, in _handleException
    self.error(_("A fatal error occured"),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 577, in gettext
    return dgettext(_current_domain, message)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 541, in dgettext
    codeset=_localecodesets.get(domain))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 489, in translation
    t = _translations.setdefault(key, class_(open(mofile, 'rb')))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 177, in __init__
    self._parse(fp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 302, in _parse
    self.plural = c2py(plural)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 86, in c2py
    raise ValueError, \
ValueError: plural forms expression error, maybe unbalanced parenthesis

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/tmpmrGP6q/edgy", line 38, in ?
    app = DistUpgradeControler(view, options)
  File "/tmp/tmpmrGP6q/DistUpgradeControler.py", line 108, in __init__
    self._view.updateStatus(_("Reading cache"))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 577, in gettext
    return dgettext(_current_domain, message)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 541, in dgettext
    codeset=_localecodesets.get(domain))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 489, in translation
    t = _translations.setdefault(key, class_(open(mofile, 'rb')))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 177, in __init__
    self._parse(fp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 302, in _parse
    self.plural = c2py(plural)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 86, in c2py
    raise ValueError, \
ValueError: plural forms expression error, maybe unbalanced parenthesis

bzd@oysterhead:~$ sudo apt-get install python-vte
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
python-vte is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

@Artur Brodowski: This is a different problem, see bug #63344

I also experienced the DistUpgradeViewGtk problem and solved it by installing python-vte. I was only able to figure this out because I debug Python code at work.

I'd think python-vte should be made a dependency of update-manager - that would solve this problem straightforwardly unless people ever download & run dist-upgrade.py directly!

The update is now in progress, but I'm sure that any system hangs reported are a separate bug to the - quite simple to fix - python-vte bug.

Hope this helps some - figured I'd report this so that other updaters to edgy will not have this problem.

bug 67999 is the same bug.

Leave it up to you to decide which one to mark as dupe ;-)