Ubuntu
software-properties package

Error writing source list to file

Bug #461125 reported by இரவிச்சந்திரன் (Ravichandran) on 2009-10-26

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #221667: software-properties-gtk crashed with IOError in save(). Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	software-properties (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/softwareproperties/kde/SoftwarePropertiesKDE.py", line 425, in on_component_toggled
    self.enable_component(str(tickBox.objectName()))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 239, in enable_component
    self.set_modified_sourceslist()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/softwareproperties/kde/SoftwarePropertiesKDE.py", line 527, in set_modified_sourceslist
    SoftwareProperties.set_modified_sourceslist(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 333, in set_modified_sourceslist
    self.save_sourceslist()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 486, in save_sourceslist
    self.sourceslist.save()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/aptsources/sourceslist.py", line 358, in save
    files[source.file]=open(source.file,"w")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/apt//tmp/tmp4czErM'

amichair (amichai2) on 2009-11-14

summary:

- software property crashed
+ Error writing source list to file

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amichair (amichai2) wrote on 2009-11-22:

as duplicate bug #484840 shows, this happens also in gtk, originating in a different action. Looks like a bug in the common backend sources list handling.