Ubuntu
update-manager package

Update-manager crash

Bug #79076 reported by Damaraland on 2007-01-13

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #79274: update-manager crashed in feisty (TypeError: exceptions must be strings, classes, or instances, not type). Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

Traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 86, in <module>
     app = UpdateManager(data_dir)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 300, in __init__
     self.setupDbus()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 443, in setupDbus
     iface.bringToFront()
   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/proxies.py", line 25, in __call__
     ret = self._proxy_method (*args, **keywords)
   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/proxies.py", line 102, in __call__
     reply_message = self._connection.send_with_reply_and_block(message, timeout)
   File "dbus_bindings.pyx", line 455, in dbus_bindings.Connection.send_with_reply_and_block
TypeError: exceptions must be strings, classes, or instances, not type
Uname: Linux servidor 2.6.20-5-generic #2 SMP Sat Jan 6 14:50:47 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux