Bug#520201: update-notifier: more information

[Berni Elbourn]

Package: update-notifier
Version: 0.70.7.debian-5
Followup-For: Bug #520201


Clicking on the update notifier widget sometimes requests an administrative password. Mostly nothing happens.

Running from command line gives this information:

elbournb at red:~$ update-notifier
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details —  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details —  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details —  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
warning: could not initiate dbus
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-manager", line 76, in <module>
    app = UpdateManager(data_dir)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 400, in __init__
    self.restore_state()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 831, in restore_state
    expanded = self.gconfclient.get_bool("/apps/update-manager/show_details")
gobject.GError: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details —  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (50, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages update-notifier depends on:
ii  dbus [dbus-1-utils]     1.2.1-5+lenny1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gksu                    2.0.0-8          graphical frontend to su
ii  hal                     0.5.11-8         Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  libart-2.0-2            2.3.20-2         Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.22.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0            2.24.2-1         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0          2.22.0-1         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                   2.7-18lenny2     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2               1.6.4-7          The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.1-5+lenny1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.84-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4             2.28.0-1         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0             1:2.6.2-1        library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.22.4-1~bpo50+1 The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0             2.20.1.1-1       The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0       2.20.1.1-1       A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0            2.24.2-1         The GNOME libraries (User Interfac
ii  libgnomevfs2-0          1:2.22.0-5       GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.18.6-1~bpo50+1 The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhal1                 0.5.11-8         Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libice6                 2:1.0.4-1        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1- 0.4.4-3          sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liborbit2               1:2.14.13-0.1    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.20.5-5         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                1.15-1           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                  2:1.0.3-2        X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                2:1.1.5-2        X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                 1:1.0.3-3        X11 authorisation library
ii  libxml2                 2.7.6.dfsg-2+b1  GNOME XML library
ii  notification-daemon     0.3.7-1+b1       a daemon that displays passive pop
ii  python                  2.5.2-3          An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-apt              0.7.7.1+nmu1     Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii  update-manager          0.68.debian-7    GNOME application that manages sof
ii  update-notifier-common  0.70.7.debian-5  Files shared between update-notifi

update-notifier recommends no packages.

update-notifier suggests no packages.

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