Comment 3 for bug 253439

I have had no problems running the add/remove software application which is about the only other application I have had occasion to run that requires admin rights. The problem seems to only occur when I click on the updates are available icon. I'm not sure if there is a difference in how this icon starts the update manager or not. I have two machines (Dell laptop and a Dell desktop) that both exibit the same error. I also have a Cloudbook that is running an older version of GOS that has not seen this issue either so it appears to be associated with the new release.

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> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:20:38 +0000
> Subject: [Bug 253439] Re: Update manager hangs on starting admin
>
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and help make Ubuntu
> better. Could you please tell me whether this happens only with update-
> manager, or does it happen with any application that requires executing
> as root (eg, Software Sources or Synaptic). If this is the case, it
> might be a bug in gksu instead.
>
> Thanks
>
> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Update manager hangs on starting admin
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253439
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> Status in “update-manager” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> I am running 2.6.24-19 Linux Ubuntu release 8.04.1 with all available updates as of 7-30-08. Update manager will start normally but when I click on the "Install Updates" button I get the normal response of "Starting Administrator" but no login box appears. From that point on the Update Manager is frozen. This seems to happen only if another program has been started before running the Update Manager. If I reboot and immediately start Update Manager from the menu everything works fine. It seems to hang when starting from the updates are available icon. At this time this is an annoyance.

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