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Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] gdm3 migration

 


On 06/12/15 21:10, Bruce Pieterse wrote:
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>
> On 02/12/2015 08:05, Tim wrote:
>> Hey All,
>>    Has anyone done a release upgrade from wily to xenial recently (like since the gdm3 migration landed?).
>>
>> If so did you get a debconf question asking to choose display manager? In theory you shouldnt since the migration scripts reset things from gdm
>> -> gdm3 (so long as gdm was the default before upgrade). I did hit it on upgrading my laptop but not 100% if it was set to gdm or lightdm at the
>> time.
>>
>> Tim
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>>
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>
> Hi Tim,
>
> I thought I would try this out, but update-manager is aborting with the following:
>
> octoquad@ugqa:~$ update-manager -d
> **
> Gtk:ERROR:/build/gtk+3.0-QN_dK1/gtk+3.0-3.16.7/./gtk/gtkprogressbar.c:609:tick_cb: assertion failed: (priv->pulse2 > priv->pulse1)
> Aborted
>
> I can't get a gdb backtrace due to ""/usr/bin/update-manager": not in executable format: File format not recognized" and using strace the
> application works fine.
>
> Sometimes it will work ok with update-manager -d but will output:
> "WARNING:root:file 'xenial.tar.gz.gpg' missing" with a dialog box saying "Failed to fetch
>
> Fetching the upgrade failed. There may be a network problem."
>
> Even though internet connectivity is working correctly.
That could be an issue with the mirror you are using?
>
> I'll try again tomorrow, perhaps this is just a temporary problem with downloading, but not sure if I should file a bug report regarding the
> app aborting.
>
> Any ideas on how I can get a decent backtrace? The crash is "update-manager crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message()" which I don't think
> is very useful.
its a python app so probably something like the following will work:
gdb python3
set args /usr/bin/update-manager -d
run


>
> update-manager:
>   Installed: 1:15.10.3
>   Candidate: 1:15.10.3
>   Version table:
>  *** 1:15.10.3 0
>         500 http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
> Thanks
>




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