TypeError: glib.markup_escape_text() takes at most 1 argument (2 given)

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. This is strange: it seems to me that the problem is caused by the Ubuntu Desktop PPA being enabled, could you please try disabling the PPA and using the gobject-introspection files from the official repository and see if that helps?
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I got this error upgrading from ubuntu 11.04 to ubuntu 10.10 beta-1. During the installation (in 11.04) update-manager closed. I went ahead and rebooted, and went back into update-manager. Ran a partial upgrade, have this error, unable to resolve currently. -.-"

Hm, somehow managed to resolve itself? And I have no idea how. In fact, I did absolutely nothing in particular to make it happen; not even a reboot. Weird. >.>"

@Robert: I don't see how this would be related to the PPA.

This happened because update-manager is trying to report an upgrade error using the apport module, and subsequently went away when the error'ed out upgrade log was not the most recent any more.

Now, we don't know what the original upgrade bug was, that triggered this buggy reporting routine - that might actually have been related to a PPA or whatever.

As apport has a similar problem itself ATM, I'm putting a watch on #839464 - but we might have to dig through update-manager itself after this is solved (so not marking as dup just yet).

It was a problem in update-manager after all; debdiff attached.

Thanks Philipp Kaluza for the debdiff. I have commited the changes to a branch and proposed a merge, as reviewing merges is most of the time easier than reviewing debdiffs. I have made the commit with your name and email address, I hope you don't mind. I hope this will get reviewed as soon as possible and get into the trunk and get released before oneiric, otherwise this can become a real crasher for people who want to update from previous releases to Oneiric (Raising the priority because of this to high). Thanks again for the catch.
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sudo apt-get dist-upgrade solved for me.

Yes, Laudeci Oliveira, it worked for me too right now

Thanks, the sudo apt-get dist-upgrade seems to have solved it. The problem now is cosmetic: I have 6 items under Distribution updates that can't be selected (and won't install when Distribution updates is selected) and won't disappear when re-checking or doing sudo dpkg --configure -a and sudo apt-get install -f. Any ideas on how to get rid of these.

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade seems to have solved it for me as well. Successful update this morning. Thanks guys.

@evfool: sounds good, thanks. However in another bug I read that the GIR changed the method signature again - we have to recheck the patch.

Sometimes it happens to me, but disappeared after further updates.

2011/9/8 Anders Ekberg <email address hidden>

> Thanks, the sudo apt-get dist-upgrade seems to have solved it. The
> problem now is cosmetic: I have 6 items under Distribution updates that
> can't be selected (and won't install when Distribution updates is
> selected) and won't disappear when re-checking or doing sudo dpkg
> --configure -a and sudo apt-get install -f. Any ideas on how to get rid
> of these.
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Workaround for now:

Remove Line 648 of /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewGtk3.py:

--- len (pkg.summary)

Remove everything but the last 3 closing parentheses (and one closing square brace) in that line. The problem is that that particular line is an unneeded argument to a function (the function only accepts one argument and there are two passed to it).

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.152.18

---------------
update-manager (1:0.152.18) oneiric; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * debian/pycompat:
    - removed, no longer needed
  * debian/rules:
    - fix incorrect invocation of --with=python2

  [ Robert Roth ]
  * lp:~evfool/update-manager/handlewarning:
    - Only disconnect handler if it's still connected (LP: #133139)
  * lp:~evfool/update-manager/glibchangefix:
    - Call glib.markup_escape_text() correctly as per current
      gir (don't pass in string length; LP: #832745)
  * lp:~evfool/update-manager/fixcopylink:
    - Fix the "Copy web link" context menu item of the ChangeLog viewer.
      It did not work before of some Gtk changes, now it does work.
      Fixes LP: #831944.

  [ Stefano Rivera ]
  * extras is another special case where validTo=False (LP: #775694)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:47:10 +0200

Hi, please can you tell me how I can solve this bug! THANKS ALL READY;

Run the following commands in terminal:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Running "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" without the
quotes from the terminal should be enough to solve this, as it has been
solved in some updates. You have to use the command line for this, as
update-manager crashes because of this bug right now.

Regards,
Robert

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Philippe Van Goethem <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Hi, please can you tell me how I can solve this bug! THANKS ALL READY;
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/832745
>
> Title:
> TypeError: glib.markup_escape_text() takes at most 1 argument (2
> given)
>
> Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> update-manager crashes after clicking "partial upgrade" (Python
> error).
>
> ** (update-manager:3427): WARNING **: expected enumeration type
> PangoUnderline, but got Underline instead
> ERROR:root:not handled expection:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
> File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 106, in <module>
> controler.doPartialUpgrade()
>
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py",
> line 1672, in doPartialUpgrade
> if not self.askDistUpgrade():
>
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py",
> line 903, in askDistUpgrade
> self.cache.requiredDownload)
>
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewGtk3.py", line
> 648, in confirmChanges
> len(pkg.summary)))])
>
> TypeError: glib.markup_escape_text() takes at most 1 argument (2
> given)
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 106, in <module>
> controler.doPartialUpgrade()
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py",
> line 1672, in doPartialUpgrade
> if not self.askDistUpgrade():
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py",
> line 903, in askDistUpgrade
> self.cache.requiredDownload)
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewGtk3.py", line
> 648, in confirmChanges
> len(pkg.summary)))])
> TypeError: glib.markup_escape_text() takes at most 1 argument (2 given)
> Error in sys.excepthook:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewGtk3.py", line
> 467, in _handleException
> apport_crash(type, value, tb)
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeApport.py", line
> 29, in apport_crash
> report[f.replace(".","").replace("-","")] = (open(f), )
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 504, in
> __setitem__
> assert k.replace('.', '').replace('-', '').replace('_', '').isalnum()
> AssertionError
>
> Original exception was:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 106, in <module>
> controler.doPartialUpgrade()
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py",
> line 1672, in doPartialUpgrade
> if not self.askDistUpgrade(...

Thank you Lukasz,

regards,

Ing. Enrique Merida
Webmaster, Xemantika
(664) 972-9102

On 09/22/2011 01:12 PM, Lukasz Olszewski wrote:
> Run the following commands in terminal:
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>

Thank's Robert,

It seem to work.

Regards,

Ing. Enrique Merida
Webmaster, Xemantika
(664) 972-9102

On 09/22/2011 01:20 PM, Robert Roth wrote:
> Running "sudo apt-get update&& sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" without the
> quotes from the terminal should be enough to solve this, as it has been
> solved in some updates. You have to use the command line for this, as
> update-manager crashes because of this bug right now.
>
> Regards,
> Robert
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Philippe Van Goethem<
> <email address hidden>> wrote:
>
>> Hi, please can you tell me how I can solve this bug! THANKS ALL READY;
>>
>> --
>> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
>> report.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/832745
>>
>> Title:
>> TypeError: glib.markup_escape_text() takes at most 1 argument (2
>> given)
>>
>> Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
>> Fix Released
>>
>> Bug description:
>> update-manager crashes after clicking "partial upgrade" (Python
>> error).
>>
>> ** (update-manager:3427): WARNING **: expected enumeration type
>> PangoUnderline, but got Underline instead
>> ERROR:root:not handled expection:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>
>> File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 106, in<module>
>> controler.doPartialUpgrade()
>>
>> File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py",
>> line 1672, in doPartialUpgrade
>> if not self.askDistUpgrade():
>>
>> File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py",
>> line 903, in askDistUpgrade
>> self.cache.requiredDownload)
>>
>> File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewGtk3.py", line
>> 648, in confirmChanges
>> len(pkg.summary)))])
>>
>> TypeError: glib.markup_escape_text() takes at most 1 argument (2
>> given)
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 106, in<module>
>> controler.doPartialUpgrade()
>> File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py",
>> line 1672, in doPartialUpgrade
>> if not self.askDistUpgrade():
>> File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py",
>> line 903, in askDistUpgrade
>> self.cache.requiredDownload)
>> File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewGtk3.py", line
>> 648, in confirmChanges
>> len(pkg.summary)))])
>> TypeError: glib.markup_escape_text() takes at most 1 argument (2 given)
>> Error in sys.excepthook:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewGtk3.py", line
>> 467, in _handleException
>> apport_crash(type, value, tb)
>> File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeApport.py", line
>> 29, in apport_crash
>> report[f.replace(".","").replace("-","")] = (open(f), )
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 504, in
>> __setitem__
>> assert k.replace('.', '').replace('-', '').replace('_', '').isalnum()
>> AssertionError
>>
>> Original exception was:
>> Tra...

This bug is said to be "fix released" but my DistUpgradeViewGtk3.py seems not to be modified as described by the patch and I still have the same error. Cannot upgrade to 12.04.