update-manager crashed with RuntimeError in <module>() : RuntimeError: could not open display.It should display a warning when $DISPLAY is not set.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
Random crash on start-up.
ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 2 05:24:53 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: update-manager 1:0.87.10
PackageArchitec
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.5 /usr/bin/
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with RuntimeError in <module>()
Traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/
gtk.
RuntimeError: could not open display
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-10-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin plugdev video
description: | updated |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Invalid → New |
tags: | added: bugpattern-needed |
Thanks for your bugreport.
The crash indicates that update-manager can not connect to your display for some reason. How do you start update-manager? Is this reproducable in any way?