update-manager crashed with dbus.exceptions.DBusException in call_blocking(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut: Activation of org.debian.apt timed out

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

this is happening to me with Lubuntu 12.10.

Update manager runs in the background & alerts each week of updates.

I usually select 'remind me later'.

Then when I run Synaptic etc to add specific packages there is a crash.

It is then impossible to run the software updater to perform the 'pending upgrades', or Synaptic to add / remove packages.

I found a work-around from 'actionparsnip' that is a script to download from dropbox, purging apt-cache etc; will post a link.

Problem with this is that it seem to download a huge amount of data due to all packages being refreshed / re-fetched.

2nd time the crash occurred, the 'crash log' (which apport has sent to 'Ubuntu' automatically) gave me this specific bug reference.

Why is it occurring ? (I have another machine running Ubuntu 11.10 that has never exhibited this).

How to:

- recover without having to refresh all packages = big download..

- stop it happening on the Lubuntu machine (pending 'proper' fix).

thanks.

Apport said this was a duplicate of a bug that I was about to report. The difference is that mine has happened on Xubuntu 14.04.

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#1622863 update-manager crashed with AttributeError in update(): 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'saveDistUpgrade'
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#1622510 update-manager popup consumes a lot of CPU
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#1622086 Cannot upgrade kubuntu 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS
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#1622078 Option to hide an update and not show it again
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#1620424 cant update from 12.04 to 14.04
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#1615335 update-manager "system must restart" dialog confusing
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#1610434 Ubuntu GNOME Trusty HWE upgrade fails to install libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-xenial
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#1610407 E:malfformed line 44 in source list/etc/apt/sources, list (dist parse), E:the list of sources could not be read.
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#1596348 update distributive crashes 12.04
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#1591672 update-manager does not obey require-password policy
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#1589759 Error authenticating some packages
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#1589603 Error while making upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04.4
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#1587204 Spams motd with "proxy ... looks invalid"
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#1587066 Update Manager Crashes immediately after launch.
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#1586293 Hard to identify package name in Danish translation of update description
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#1585715 Software Updater "Could not initialise the package information"
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#1581239 Update to 12.0.4 LTS from 10.0.4 failed
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#1578823 Impossible to upgrade from 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS
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#1578435 Excessive CPU consumption when asking whether to update
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#1577056 The following signatures were invalid: NODATA 1 NODATA 2
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#1568366 Removing an old kernel results in reboot request
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#1567145 Update manager fills /boot until it blows up from insufficient disk space
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#1564357 error authenticating some packages
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#1561569 /usr/bin/update-manager:python: ../../src/xcb_io.c:529: _XAllocID: Zusicherung \302\273ret != inval_id\302\253 nicht erf\303\274llt.
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#1558775 trying to update and recieved error message
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#1557249 Hash...

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I got this crash also on Ubuntu 19.04

There is a recent update-notifier crash with a similar Traceback as the one in this report:

https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/5f3a912b6062ddd581a10260f67312a91d94d2d1

Upon further consideration the crash report *only* has hundreds of duplicates so removing the rls-jj-incoming tag.