While update-manager shouldn't fail in this manner, the extraordinary thing here is that $XAUTHORITY is set and points at a non-existent file. update-manager will be unable to establish any further X connections under those circumstances, so aside from the ugliness of the error, the real bug is in whatever has set up $XAUTHORITY to point to a nonexistent file (or has removed the file that $XAUTHORITY was pointing to).
Hence it's necessary to know how update-manager was invoked in order to trace down that bug there. ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) Target: hardy-alpha-2 => None -- [kde] copy XAUTHORITY may fail and crashes the upgrader (was: Upgrade tool crashed when upgrading 7.04 -> 7.10) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156320 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs