Ubuntu
update-manager package

Add "retry" button on free space check (was: kubuntu update tool)

Bug #154236 reported by Andrei Kopats
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-manager (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Michael Vogt
Ubuntu later

Bug Description

Kubuntu update tool exiting, when too less free space. Why do not add button "Retry". I can free some space and press it.
It's terrible, when I see progress 99%, and fetching file 40/50 ..... fetching file 54/60 fetching file 60/72.
Why you showing fake progress?
Why you not using apt-get for download files. Every time when update tool chashed, I need to wait while it's will download files again.
I runned update tool and wented away from computer, with hope it's will finish when I will come to work at morning, but at morning there was just message "Disabling non free repositoryes", that stopped process

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the log files from '/var/log/dist-upgrade/' to this bugreport as attachments to your bug report? Thanks in advance.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your suggestion with the retry button, I think that is a good and useful addition

Changed in update-manager:
milestone: none → later
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in update-manager:
milestone: later → hardy-alpha-1
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in update-manager:
milestone: hardy-alpha-1 → hardy-alpha-2
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in update-manager:
milestone: hardy-alpha-2 → none
Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)
Changed in update-manager:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)
Changed in update-manager:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote :

I realize it's unpolite to nag, but I've been wondering what happened to the "retry" button idea on the disk space error dialog.

Why, yes, I had to restart the upgrade process from the very beginning after freeing up some disk space today, how'd you guess? :-)

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Unfortunately this will not make it for jaunty (UI and string freeze). I milestoned it "later" now.

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → later
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Roman Vorobets (roman-vorobets) wrote :

I'm quite disappointed to see this bug having "Wishlist" importance and still not fixed in Karmic. Having to wait for the preparation process for about 10 minutes, and another 5 minutes (plus 10 minutes to start the process again) to undo the changes after "no free disk space" error is not very user friendly.

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