/usr/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/check-new-release-gtk:TypeError:on_button_upgrade_now_clicked:run:error:error:__init__:__init__:function
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Brian Murray | ||
Quantal |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Raring |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Brian Murray |
Bug Description
The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding ubuntu-
Impact:
Users of Ubuntu 12.10 (and 13.04) are unable to upgrade to Ubuntu 13.04 (or 13.10) unless they manually install libgksu2-0 (or a package that depends on it).
Test Case:
1) Install Ubuntu 12.10 (or 13.04)
2) Run /usr/lib/
3) Click upgrade now
4) Observe a crash
With the version of ubuntu-
Regression Potential:
None as we are just readding a removed dependency for ubuntu-
Development Fix:
The plan to fix this in the development release is to move to policykit instead of using gksu.
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
status: | Incomplete → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → High |
description: | updated |
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Raring): | |
assignee: | nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray) |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → In Progress |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray) |
This is because of the DistUpgradeFetc her.py expects gksu, but ubuntu- release- upgrader- core does not depend on it and gksu is not installed by default.