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Adept Manager crashes when you add bad URL of a mirror

Bug #211674 reported by usr
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Adept Manager
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adept (Ubuntu)
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Nominated for Intrepid by usr

Bug Description

Adept Manager crashes when you add bad URL of a mirror.

For example: If you add "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu gutsy" instead "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu gutsy main", adept crashes.

It should show a message like as "The URL of the mirror is incorrect. Please, verify that it you are writing is right".

See original description

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/adept
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In , Ben Aceler (aceler) wrote :

Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from: Ubuntu Packages

When I added a new source, I forget to say "deb", so I say:

http://mirror.yandex.ru/ubuntu feisty main

instead of

deb http://mirror.yandex.ru/ubuntu feisty main

and Adept adds this line to sources.list! This cause adept crashing when fetching new source and it was not able to start later.

Adept have to check what he trying to write in sources.list!

usr (usrlp-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)
description: updated
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In , mornfall (mornfall) wrote :

*** Bug 159952 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , mornfall (mornfall) wrote :

This is indeed something that needs to be fixed, however: there is currently no sources editor integrated into Adept on the version 3 development branch (users are referred to use external software-properties utility) and it won't be there for 3.0 release. I'm marking this as 3.1 for now, therefore.

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In , mornfall (mornfall) wrote :

*** Bug 156951 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

The repository managing window is actually a separate program.

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

...but the crash in in adept.

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

Confirming with Adept 3.0~beta1.

Changed in adept:
status: New → Confirmed
Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)
Changed in adept:
importance: Undecided → Low
Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)
Changed in adept:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in adeptmgr:
status: Unknown → In Progress
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usr (usrlp-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Confirming with Adept 3.0~beta4.

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gotaug (gotaug) wrote :

The same thing happened to me using Adept 3.0-beta4, on kubuntu 8.10 final release AMD64. Once I manually corrected the bad entry in the sources.list file, using Kate, then Adept started working again. Until then, it wouldn't even open!

Something as small as a bad repository address shouldn't crash the whole Adept application. This is a real flaw in the program.

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Pancho (pancho.s) wrote :

Confirming this bug with Adept 3.0-beta4 on Kubuntu 8.10 Final AMD64.
This is really ugly as a "Welcome message" to new users.

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Chris J Cheney (c.j.cheney) wrote :

I have just come up against this bug with Kubuntu 8.10 (released version).

The effect is that once a bad URL (e.g. "http;" instead of "http:") is in sources.list, Adept will crash when it is started, giving no opportunity for fixing (or circumventing) the problem. The end-user is then stuck (unless he/she has enough knowledge to go the correct file and manually edit it). IMHO the priority should rather greater than "low".

Contrastingly, Synaptic outputs a diagnostic indicating the line where the error is and continues by ignoring that line.

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Ole Rasmussen (eluminex) wrote :

Happens to me on Kubuntu 9.04 Alpha5 (x64) as well when I forgot the 'e' in "deb" in the URL. This is the output from adept:

Constructing PkgSystem
PkgSystem Score:32
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Type 'db' is not known on line 55 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: Type 'db' is not known on line 55 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
Qt has caught an exception thrown from an event handler. Throwing
exceptions from an event handler is not supported in Qt. You must
reimplement QApplication::notify() and catch all exceptions there.

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'wibble::exception::System'
  what(): Success. Context:
    The list of sources could not be read.
Aborted (core dumped)

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

Fix committed for Adept 3.0 beta6.

Changed in adept (Ubuntu):
importance: Low → Medium
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package adept - 3.0~beta7.2ubuntu1

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adept (3.0~beta7.2ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Sync with Debian unstable
    Bugfixes: LP: #211674, LP: #290620
  * Add kubuntu_01_gcc_44_ftbfs_fix.diff to fix a FTBFS with GCC 4.4

 -- Jonathan Thomas <email address hidden> Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:46:50 -0400

Changed in adept (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in adeptmgr:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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In , adaptee (adaptee) wrote :

Adept has been in the unmaintained state for a few years. Use muon[1] as replacement .

[1] https://launchpad.net/muon

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in adeptmgr:
status: In Progress → Unknown
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