Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager
chown ~/.update-manager to root, and it crashes. ProblemType: Crash Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Mar 10 10:58:50 2007 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5 Package: update-manager 1:0.57.8 PackageArchitecture: all ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/update-manager ProcCwd: /home/amelo ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager'] SourcePackage: update-manager Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py", line 171, in download f=open(self.METARELEASE_FILE,"w+") IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/amelo/.update-manager/meta-release' Uname: Linux amelo-desktop 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux ** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- Update manager crashes if ~/.update-manager/* isn't owned by the user. https://launchpad.net/bugs/91183 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs