Roger Binns wrote: > My complaint is about the message appearing in the first place and why > the whole package/update system doesn't just self heal instead of > spitting out a message that only the geekiest can understand.
I understand your complaint. I think that this issue doesn't belong to the update manager, but it should be handled by dpkg. As a matter of fact update-manager uses dpkg in order to keep the system updated, and the message you got was outputted by dpkg, not update-manager. In many cases running 'dpkg --configure -a' doesn't solve the issue. For example see bug #324252. For this reason I don't know if it is bug or a feature of dpkg, however I agree that this message is almost incomprehensible to an inexperienced user. Anyway I'm not a developer of Ubuntu so... let's wait for a comment of a more experienced user than me! > Also note > that it is a security issue. The user's system was set to automatically > update. She just ran the update manager out of curiosity to discover > that she was over a hundred updates behind and the obscure message with > the request to report it. > On the other hand this issue should be handled by update-manager, which may alert the user about missing updates. For this reason I suggest you should change the description of this report and ask to implement this missing feature in update-manager. Thank you. -- _cache->open() failed, please report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/320222 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
