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update-manager package

Update-manager won't start because of missing icon

Bug #68697 reported by Fredrik Tolf
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-manager (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt
Ubuntu edgy-updates

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

I just tried to upgrade a system from Dapper to Edgy by way of using "update-manager -c", and was surprised to find the following error. As soon as I pressed the Update button and it had downloaded two files, it aborted with the following Python traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/tmpdmzvTY/edgy", line 33, in ?
    view = view_class()
  File "/tmp/tmpdmzvTY/DistUpgradeViewGtk.py", line 326, in __init__
    gtk.window_set_default_icon(icons.load_icon("update-manager", 32, 0))
gobject.GError: Failed to open file '/usr/share/icons/Tangerine/scalable/apps/update-manager.svg': No such file or directory

I then tried symlinking Tango/scalable/apps/update-manager.svg to Tangerine/scalable/apps/update-manager.svg, and that made it work. Surely, however, it isn's supposed to abort because of something that simple?

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

I was not able to reproduce this problem on my dapper install. I set the icon-theme to Tangerine. What theme settings did you used when you got the error?

Anyway I commited a patch to protect against this kind of error in the future and it will be part of the next upload to edgy-updates.

Thanks,
 Michael

Changed in update-manager:
assignee: nobody → mvo
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Committed
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Remke (r-schuurmans) wrote :

Same problem here...
the symlinking resolved also my problem ...

Grz
Remke

ln -s /usr/share/icons/Tango/scalable/apps/update-manager.svg /usr/share/icons/Tangerine/scalable/apps/update-manager.svg

(gksu -u root "update-manager -c")

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Fredrik Tolf (fredrik-dolda2000) wrote :

The icon theme in use at the time was, in fact, Human. I have no idea why it was looking for an icon in the Tangerine directory.

Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in update-manager:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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