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update-manager crashed with TypeError in refresh_cache(): start_error() missing 1 required positional argument: 'desc'

Bug #1102844 reported by Daniel Winzen on 2013-01-22

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1099274: update-manager crashed with TypeError in refresh_cache(): start_error() missing 1 required positional argument: 'desc'. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	New	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

This error occurred after clicking on "Fortfahren" (continue) in Update-Manager to install some updates. After restarting it, it worked.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.177
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-1.5-generic 3.8.0-rc4
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-1-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu2
Aptdaemon:

Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jan 22 09:12:57 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
GsettingsChanges:
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1358842307'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'652'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'500'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-04-03 (293 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120403)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.3
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/update-manager --no-update --no-focus-on-map
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager', '--no-update', '--no-focus-on-map']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with TypeError in refresh_cache(): start_error() missing 1 required positional argument: 'desc'
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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Daniel Winzen (q-d-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2013-01-22:

CurrentDmesg.txt.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (12.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt.txt Edit (199.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt.txt Edit (458.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (60.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (827 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Traceback.txt Edit (953 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) on 2013-01-22

tags:	removed: need-duplicate-check
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2013-01-23:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1099274, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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