This bug affects me also.
I'm assuming it is something related to /var/cache being mounted as a tmpfs
I haven't tried the [Unity notification "Update Manager" icon -> Install
updates] trick. Do you right click on the icon to get this option? When I run...
~$ update-manager
from a terminal it doesn't work even if I right click on the icon. How do I get
the unity notification?
When running from the command line I get these warnings...
~$ update-manager
WARNING:root:directory '/var/cache/apt/archives' does not exists
ERROR:root:Not enough free space: ['/var/cache']
WARNING:root:directory '/var/cache/apt/archives' does not exists
ERROR:root:Not enough free space: ['/var/cache']
gpg: /tmp/tmpGDw2Px/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
I check manually for /var/cache/apt/archives...
~$ ls /var/cache/apt/
pkgcache.bin srcpkgcache.bin
I create /var/cache/apt/archives...
~$ sudo mkdir /var/cache/apt/archives
[sudo] password for jesse:
I run update-manager again...
~$ update-manager
SUCCESS!!!
I try installing updates...
The updates work but I get the following list of error messages in the
terminal...
<quote>
(update-manager:20288): Gtk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.4.2/./gtk/gtkliststore.c:851: Unable to convert
from glong to gint
(update-manager:20288): Gtk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.4.2/./gtk/gtkliststore.c:851: Unable to convert from
glong to gint
(update-manager:20288): Gtk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.4.2/./gtk/gtkliststore.c:851: Unable to convert from
glong to gint
(update-manager:20288): Gtk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.4.2/./gtk/gtkliststore.c:851: Unable to convert from
glong to gint
(update-manager:20288): Gtk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.4.2/./gtk/gtkliststore.c:851: Unable to convert from
glong to gint
(update-manager:20288): Gtk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.4.2/./gtk/gtkliststore.c:851: Unable to convert from
glong to gint
(update-manager:20288): Gtk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.4.2/./gtk/gtkliststore.c:851: Unable to convert from
glong to gint
(update-manager:20288): Gtk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.4.2/./gtk/gtkliststore.c:851: Unable to convert from
glong to gint
(update-manager:20288): Gtk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.4.2/./gtk/gtkliststore.c:851: Unable to convert from
glong to gint
(update-manager:20288): Gtk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.4.2/./gtk/gtkliststore.c:851: Unable to convert from
glong to gint
(update-manager:20288): Gtk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.4.2/./gtk/gtkliststore.c:851: Unable to convert from
glong to gint
(update-manager:20288): Gtk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.4.2/./gtk/gtkliststore.c:851: Unable to convert from
glong to gint
(update-manager:20288): Gtk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.4.2/./gtk/gtkliststore.c:851: Unable to convert from
glong to gint
(update-manager:20288): Gtk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.4.2/./gtk/gtkliststore.c:851: Unable to convert from
glong to gint
(update-manager:20288): Gtk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.4.2/./gtk/gtkliststore.c:851: Unable to convert from
glong to gint
(update-manager:20288): Gtk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.4.2/./gtk/gtkliststore.c:851: Unable to convert from
glong to gint
(update-manager:20288): Gtk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.4.2/./gtk/gtkliststore.c:851: Unable to convert from
glong to gint
(update-manager:20288): Gtk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.4.2/./gtk/gtkliststore.c:851: Unable to convert from
glong to gint
(update-manager:20288): Gtk-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.4.2/./gtk/gtkliststore.c:851: Unable to convert from
glong to gint
debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open
/var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied
debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open
/var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied
debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open
/var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied
debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open
/var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied
debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open
/var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied
debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open
/var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied
</quote>
I'm wondering if these are just messages that would appear anyway and
are not related to this bug? Any one know? I'm assuming that they are.
As a permanent fix/workaround I added the following line to /etc/init.rc
before the "exit 0" line
<quote>
if [ /var/cache/apt/archives ]; then echo "/var/cache/apt/archives exists";
else mkdir /var/cache/apt/archives; fi || die "Command failed: mkdir
/var/cache/apt/archives"
</quote>
Now need to go tell the writers of the howto's etc on SSD that
recommended putting /var/cache on tmpfs ;-)
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