edgy->feisty dist-upgrade only works if ~/.gnupg file is there
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | update-manager (Ubuntu) |
High
|
mishal | ||
Bug Description
When upgrading from Ubuntu 6.10 to Ubuntu 7.04, Update Manager 0.45 may display the following errors and fail:
"Authentication failed
Authenticating the upgrade failed. There may be a problem with the network or with the server."
"exception from gpg: GnuPG exited non-zero, with code 131072"
The problem can be corrected by installing the latest version of Update Manager for Ubuntu 6.10 prior to upgrading.
Related branches
| Changed in update-manager: | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
| Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote : | #1 |
| Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote : | #3 |
Thanks Colin!
Uploaded to edgy-proposed and subscribed the ubuntu-archive team.
| Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen) wrote : | #4 |
Accepted into edgy-proposed.
| Changed in update-manager: | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
| Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : | #5 |
I tested the original problem using Edgy and update-manager 0.45 and had the same issue with it failing because of gnupg. I then installed the proposed package, version 0.45.1, and it did not fail because of gnupg.
| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : | #6 |
Confirmed with today's edgy->feisty upgrades, -proposed packages work.
| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : | #7 |
Accepted into edgy-updates.
| Changed in update-manager: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| description: | updated |
since yesterday I have this message in feisty appearing.
My system is not a update from edgy.
| Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote : | #9 |
@greenhunter: could you please file a seperate bugreport if it happens for you on a feisty system? Please include a screenshot of the application (including the error dialog).
| Peter Cordes (peter-cordes) wrote : | #10 |
BTW, I found that existance of ~/.gnupg isn't enough. I uncommented
keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve
and then ran gpg --verify /tmp/blah/blah.gpg
so by the time I tried update-manager again, my keyring already included the key.
This was on an edgy laptop that hadn't been updated for a few weeks. Presumably the latest update-manager would have worked.
| ferono (jadkison) wrote : | #11 |
I had the same authentication error. My fix was doing a 'apt-get install update-
| BackSeat (kae-midnighthax) wrote : | #12 |
Same problem, different reason. I had apt.conf set to use a local apt-cacher proxy, which I had to disable to get rid of this message.
| Johnathon (kirrus) wrote : | #13 |
Had this problem. Wasn't fixed by upgrading/
| Changed in update-manager: | |
| assignee: | nobody → aim-9 |
| Nicolas_Raoul (nicolas-raoul) wrote : | #14 |
I just had this bug when trying to upgrade from 2010.04 to 2010.10
I fixed it using the "gpg" trick.
So the bug is still here.
| Abdul (kh66) wrote : | #15 |
Recently I upgraded my ubuntu 10.10 (wubi) to 11.04.I upgraded it directly from ubuntu ugrade. NowI have issues.One of them is that I am not able to update.When I do it I get this message:
Could not initialize the package information
An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.
Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:
'E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/
I can operate the system and I dont know whether version I have is 11.04 or 10.10.But the features specific to UNITY have not been found .How would I replace the new version if I intend to?There is a red error symbol at the pane with an error message. Abdul
Reproduced with new Dell notebook with pre-installed Ubuntu when upgrading from 10.10 to 11.04
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