This is still occurring. I am wondering if it is related to update- notifier actually. Here's the output of update-notifier when running Update Manager's install:
insan...@mach4:~$ update-notifier --debug-updates (update-notifier:7147): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "ubuntulooks", (update-notifier:7147): update-DEBUG: update_check() ** (update-notifier:7147): DEBUG: /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check returned 12 (security: 0) (update-notifier:7147): update-DEBUG: is_package_system_locked: 0 (update-notifier:7147): update-DEBUG: interval_days from gconf: 7 (update-notifier:7147): update-DEBUG: last_launch from gconf: 1240353097 (update-notifier:7147): update-DEBUG: last_launch from /var/log/dpkg.log: 1240353097 PID TTY TIME CMD 3769 ? 00:00:00 pulseaudio ** (update-notifier:7147): DEBUG: crashreport_check -- Unable to install or upgrade packages using synaptic or update-manager https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353471 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
