*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 84724 *** Michael V stated, in another (related) bug -- bug #84613, that update- manager does not require root for checking for updates on feisty.
So... a good chance of your problem was related to the fact that the directory was owned by root, with no write access to others; this might have happened either because you upgraded from a previous version of ubuntu to feisty, or because you used update-manager on feisty before the changes were fully in (I do not know, and have not had time to check). But a version of update-manager that required root would create the directory owned by root -- which would then give you the issue. -- [apport] update-manager crashed with IOError in download() https://launchpad.net/bugs/83404 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
