Public bug reported: During installation of available updates, something crashed: I got Ubuntu's "system program problem detected" popup, though the details said what crashed was XCode (which wasn't running) and that the problem could not be reported because it's third party software (then I wonder why the error reporting option shows up in the first place).
Anyway, after this update manager failed to install some package (and didn't tell me which one). Then a "prohibition" symbol appeared in the notification area (note that this is a wrong icon btw, it is supposed to mean that something is forbidden, but here it is wrongly used to mean that something went wrong) By clicking on it, a mostly-nonsense error message unfolded, reading (extra rage to the person who coded the error message in such a way that I cannot copy and paste it, btw): "An error occurred, please run Package Manager from the right click menu" WHAT RIGHT CLICK MENU??? "or apt.get in a terminal to see what is wrong" I RAN APT-GET IN A TERMINAL AND IT DOESN'T SAY A WORD ABOUT WHAT IS WRONG "The error message was: 'Error: BrokenCount > 0'. This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies" That alone, by the way, is not an explanation of what's wrong. The package manager's and updata manager's job is to install packages and all their dependencies, so if an installed package has unmet dependencies that is not the source but the CONSEQUENCE of the error. So, instead of giving me WRONG instructions of what to do in order to retrieve information about what went wrong (which I won't get by following those instructions), it should tell me what the hell was wrong either in place or provide a clickable button to show it. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: update-manager 1:0.194.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-20.34-generic 3.11.10.6 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-20-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat May 17 22:40:42 2014 GsettingsChanges: b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false' b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1400327425' InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (218 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: update-manager UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2014-02-23 (83 days ago) ** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug saucy -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1320550 Title: An error occurred during update, and information given about the error is partly unclear and partly wrong To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1320550/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs