Comment 9 for bug 253439

Some additional information for you: The update-manager generated a notification that updates were available. This happened while I was using Firefox. I opened the update-manager through the menu system and when I clicked on install updates the program locked up and never displayed the admin password dialog window. I rebooted, started Firefox, and opened my email so I could get the instructions to load the development version of libgksu. I had to start the Software Sources application three times before it actually started. I then installed the latest development version of libgksu, rebooted, started Firefox, and clicked on the Update Manager icon in the panel. It started as expected and displayed the password request when told to install updates.

At this time it appears as if the dev version of libgksu seems to have solved the problem. I will monitor the behaviour of the update-manager to see if the problem has been corrected. I will keep you informed.

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> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:41:59 +0000
> Subject: [Bug 253439] Re: Update manager hangs on starting admin
>
> ddfarren - To install the latest version of libgksu from hardy-proposed,
> you need to enable the proposed repository. To do this, go to System ->
> Administration -> Software Sources. On the updates tab, make sure that
> Proposed Updates is checked. You can then mark libgksu for upgrade in
> Synaptic.
>
> Please bare in mind that hardy-proposed is a testing repository, so you
> should not generally upgrade packages from this repository unless you
> are comfortable with occasional breakage.
>
> Thanks
>
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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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