** Description changed:
Binary package hint: update-manager
In ubuntu 9.10 my copy of update-manager seems to have broken.
Upon launching it I can check for updates okay but once the list of
updates is populated the cursor stays in its 'busy' state (The little
watch icon) and the updates are greyed out and unclickable. Note that
this is *not* the same flavour of grey as held back/uninstallable
updates!
I can still click on all four buttons (settings, close, check and
install updates) and they all perform the correct actions. If I close
and re-open update-manager the list of updates becomes un-greyed out and
I can view changes/descriptions of packages as normal.
It's quite hard to know where to start debugging this - yell if you need
the output from any commands or logfiles. I've attached a screenshot of
the problem.
This is a potential security/stability risk as I, as a user, can't see
what changes are in the new packages being installed...
+ Potentially relevant, this is an NFS root system. I can't see how this
+ should make a difference, but it might... so I'll say that now rather
+ than later and everybody going *facepalm* :-)
+
$ apt-cache policy update-manager
update-manager:
Installed: 1:0.124.2
Candidate: 1:0.124.2
Version table:
*** 1:0.124.2 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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update manager updates list greyed out karmic
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398038
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