Re: [Bug 127263] Re: update-manager cannot find meta-release info

2007-09-20 Thread phix
I can confirm this output (notably failing to initialize dbus, and the NameErrors --phix On 9/20/07, ThinkpadUBUNTU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am afraid none of the above allowed the upgrade to run on my system - > > here is the output > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo touch -t 19700101 > /

Re: [Bug 127263] Re: update-manager cannot find meta-release info

2007-09-10 Thread ysth
On Mon, September 10, 2007 4:07 am, Michael Vogt wrote: > I put packages online at: > > deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~mvo/update-manager / > > Please give them a go. > > Thanks, Thank *you*. Seems to work just great, except that running sudo update-manager -d, I needed to hit "Check" before the n

Re: [Bug 127263] Re: update-manager cannot find meta-release info

2007-09-07 Thread Will Newton
Should we be checking for corrupt meta release info as well as 0 length files here? Is it that bad to download the meta release file every time when -d is passed? On 9/7/07, schnollk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to report what happend here[1]: > > 1. procedure as suggested href="https:/

Re: [Bug 127263] Re: update-manager cannot find meta-release info

2007-09-06 Thread ysth
On Thu, September 6, 2007 4:33 pm, Anders wrote: > I tried > $ sudo touch -t 19700101 /var/lib/update-manager/meta-release > $ update-manager -d > to no avail. Try using sudo for both commands. Or try: $ rm ~/.update-manager-core/meta-release $ update-manager -d -- update-manager cannot fi

Re: [Bug 127263] Re: update-manager cannot find meta-release info

2007-08-28 Thread ysth
On Tue, August 28, 2007 3:17 am, Martin Pool wrote: > The recipe give by Daniel Moyne of just touching the file to the epoch > does not work for me, neither does the one from ysth. Touching the file may not work if you don't sudo update-manager. I'd like to know what you tried. > mvo's patch doe

Re: [Bug 127263] Re: update-manager cannot find meta-release info

2007-08-27 Thread Bruce Cowan
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 18:22 +, brettalton wrote: > Has the patch been uploaded to the repositories? I'm not sure how to > merg a .diff file. > sudo patch /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py u-m.diff should do it (I hope). -- Bruce Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --