An additional annoyance of this bug is that you get error mails from /etc/cron.daily/apt every day if the admin don't use gnome and the .gconf directory does not exist. If you run lots of servers, it gets very annoying.
Please, can somebody apply the patch that Sree attached? -- /etc/cron.daily/apt incorrectly overrides apt.conf proxy settings with GNOME proxy settings, losing proxy exclusion list, and causes updates to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277493 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