Comment 19 for bug 197581

Revision history for this message
sabbath (dawid-kasza) wrote : Re: [Bug 197581] Re: update-manager crashed with RuntimeError in <module>() : RuntimeError: could not open display.It should display a warning when $DISPLAY is not set.

Try switch to console: ctrl+alt+2 and then press "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"
let me know if that works for you guys. Rdgs!
23-04-2011 10:00 użytkownik "Tim Smith" <email address hidden> napisał:
> This bug is stopping me from upgrading, how do you work around it?
>
> Sent from my HTC
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "absolutezero1287" <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 197581] Re: update-manager crashed with RuntimeError in
<module>() : RuntimeError: could not open display.It should display a
warning when $DISPLAY is not set.
> Date: Sat, Apr 23, 2011 01:37
>
>
> I would like to point out that when I got this bug I was on Ubuntu 10.10
> upgrading to 11.04. Ever since upgrading to 11.04 I have not been able
> to reproduce the bug.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197581
>
> Title:
> update-manager crashed with RuntimeError in <module>() : RuntimeError:
> could not open display.It should display a warning when $DISPLAY is
> not set.
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
>
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/197581/+subscribe
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug (517164).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197581
>
> Title:
> update-manager crashed with RuntimeError in <module>() : RuntimeError:
> could not open display.It should display a warning when $DISPLAY is
> not set.
>
> Status in "update-manager" package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: update-manager
>
> Random crash on start-up.
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun Mar 2 05:24:53 2008
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
> InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
> NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
> Package: update-manager 1:0.87.10
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.5 /usr/bin/update-manager
> ProcEnviron:
>
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager']
> SourcePackage: update-manager
> Title: update-manager crashed with RuntimeError in <module>()
> Traceback:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 43, in <module>
> gtk.init_check()
> RuntimeError: could not open display
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-10-generic i686
> UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin plugdev video
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
>
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/197581/+subscribe