Ubuntu
update-manager package

drop update-manager-text package

Bug #1385524 reported by Thomas Tanner
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-manager (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
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Bionic
Fix Released
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Steps to reproduce:
Launch `sudo update-manager-text` on any supported Ubuntu version (14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, 17.10 and 18.04 LTS).

Expected results:
update-manager-text works normally.

Actual results:
update-manager-text crashes.

# update-manager-text
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done
Building Updates List
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/update-manager-text", line 70, in <module>
    app = UpdateManagerText(data_dir)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManagerText/UpdateManagerText.py", line 55, in __init__
    self.fillstore()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManagerText/UpdateManagerText.py", line 90, in fillstore
    self.list.pkgs, key=operator.attrgetter("importance"),
AttributeError: 'UpdateList' object has no attribute 'pkgs'

Part of original description in below (about obsolete 13.04 and 13.10).

Looking at the source
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManager/Core/UpdateList.py
and it's earlier versions (from 13.04) it's obvious that there seems to be a version mismatch between
ii update-manager-core 1:0.194.2 all manage release upgrades
ii update-manager-text 1:0.194.2 all Text application that manages apt updates

as there is no self.pkgs defined anywhere in the class UpdateList.
So either update-manager-text or -core needs to be updated.

However, do-release-upgrade works but I thought I should report this bug.

See original description

Related branches

lp:update-manager
Thomas Tanner (tomtanner)
tags: added: dist-upgrade
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Olleg Samoylov (olleg) wrote :

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, update-manager-text 0.196.19, the same error.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Norbert (nrbrtx) wrote :

Confirmed on artful (see this AskUbuntu post - https://askubuntu.com/q/1004868/66509)

$ sudo update-manager-text
[sudo] password for artful:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Building Updates List
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/update-manager-text", line 70, in <module>
    app = UpdateManagerText(data_dir)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManagerText/UpdateManagerText.py", line 55, in __init__
    self.fillstore()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManagerText/UpdateManagerText.py", line 90, in fillstore
    self.list.pkgs, key=operator.attrgetter("importance"),
AttributeError: 'UpdateList' object has no attribute 'pkgs'

tags: added: artful
tags: added: xenail
tags: added: xenial
removed: xenail
tags: added: trusty
Norbert (nrbrtx)
tags: added: bionic
summary: - update-manager-text crashes on 13.10
+ update-manager-text crashes on 13.10, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, 17.10 and
+ 18.04 LTS
Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Re: update-manager-text crashes on 13.10, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, 17.10 and 18.04 LTS

It looks like update-manager-text was never updated to support the groups, update_groups and security_groups, models.

summary: - update-manager-text crashes on 13.10, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, 17.10 and
- 18.04 LTS
+ update-manager-text crashes in all supported releases
tags: added: rls-bb-incoming
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
summary: - update-manager-text crashes in all supported releases
+ drop update-manager-text package
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Jasper Vogel (jasper42) wrote :

Please don't drop update-manager-text, but fix it instead. I would really like to use it for monitoring the update-state of our corporate Ubuntu-Clients. The reason is that I'd like to keep the phased-updates for stability reasons, but still be able to correctly monitor the update-state of the systems. Neither apt nor apt-get allow me to get a correct result for that situation. But update-manager-text could do that.

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Norbert (nrbrtx) wrote : Re: update-manager-text crashes in all supported releases

+1 to Jasper Vogel comment.

Droping package is a bad idea. Please fix the package!

summary: - drop update-manager-text package
+ update-manager-text crashes in all supported releases
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: Triaged → Confirmed
Norbert (nrbrtx)
description: updated
summary: - update-manager-text crashes in all supported releases
+ [SRU] update-manager-text crashes in all supported releases
description: updated
description: updated
Francis Ginther (fginther)
tags: added: id-5a8eef2bf11f7343bd364e31
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
tags: removed: rls-bb-incoming
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote : Re: [SRU] update-manager-text crashes in all supported releases

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:18.04.5

---------------
update-manager (1:18.04.5) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Drop the update-manager-text package and code as it has been broken for a
    long time and it wasn't used by many people. (LP: #1385524)

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Mon, 05 Mar 2018 16:41:24 -0800

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Norbert (nrbrtx)
summary: - [SRU] update-manager-text crashes in all supported releases
+ drop update-manager-text package
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Philippe Coval (rzr) wrote :

What is the fallback option ?

This bug was linked on:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1004868/update-manager-text-fails-with-error-attributeerror-updatelist-object-has-no

I was on:
VERSION="17.10 (Artful Aardvark)"

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Philippe Coval (rzr) wrote :

Using
update-manager-text: version 1:18.04.11.10

```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/update-manager-text", line 70, in <module>
    app = UpdateManagerText(data_dir)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManagerText/UpdateManagerText.py", line 55, in __init__
    self.fillstore()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManagerText/UpdateManagerText.py", line 90, in fillstore
    self.list.pkgs, key=operator.attrgetter("importance"),
AttributeError: 'UpdateList' object has no attribute 'pkgs'
```

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Philippe Coval (rzr) wrote :

$ dpkg -s update-manager-text | grep Version
Version: 1:17.10.13

$ update-manager-text -V
update-manager-text: version 1:19.04.5

$ update-manager-text
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Building Updates List
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/update-manager-text", line 70, in <module>
    app = UpdateManagerText(data_dir)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManagerText/UpdateManagerText.py", line 55, in __init__
    self.fillstore()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManagerText/UpdateManagerText.py", line 90, in fillstore
    self.list.pkgs, key=operator.attrgetter("importance"),
AttributeError: 'UpdateList' object has no attribute 'pkgs'

$ sudo aptitude remove update-manager-text

$ sudo aptitude install update-manager-text

Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "update-manager-text"

OK Package was out of distro but remained on mine,
maybe a conflict, replace would help in debian/control ?

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