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update-manager package

OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log'

Bug #121289 reported by Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín on 2007-06-20

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Paul Dufresne

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

snifer@snifer-laptop:/var/crash$ update-manager --dist-upgrade
ERROR:root:not handled expection:
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 78, in <module>
controler = DistUpgradeControler(view, datadir=data_dir)

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeControler.py", line 155, in __init__
os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREAT|os.O_APPEND|os.O_SYNC, 0644)

OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log'

ERROR:root:failed to import apport python module, can't report bug: No module named python_hook

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jun 20 03:13:58 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.64
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux snifer-laptop 2.6.22-6-generic #1 SMP Fri Jun 1 19:24:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín (snifer) wrote on 2007-06-20:

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2008-01-30:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

Changed in update-manager:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín (snifer) wrote on 2008-01-31:

Yes, it's still an issue. This is the output with update-manager version 1:0.81.2:

snifer@snifer-laptop:/var/crash$ update-manager --dist-upgrade
ERROR:root:not handled expection:
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 87, in <module>
controler = DistUpgradeControler(view, datadir=data_dir)

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeControler.py", line 166, in __init__
os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREAT|os.O_APPEND|os.O_SYNC, 0644)

OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log'

ERROR:root:failed to import apport python module, can't report bug: No module named python_hook

Changed in update-manager:
status:	Incomplete → New

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Paul Dufresne (paulduf) wrote on 2008-04-29:

As far as I know, you need to run update-manager with sudo, so you should use:
sudo update-manager --dist-upgrade
Marking the bug as invalid, but feel free to report any comment, or to reopen.

Note that Hardy version have better error message:
paul@Arcturus:~$ update-manager --dist-upgrade
ERROR:root:Cache can not be locked (E:Impossible d'ouvrir le fichier verrou /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission non accordée), E:Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?)
paul@Arcturus:~$ update-manager --version
update-manager: version 0.87.24