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packagekit package

Don't fail if dbus is not running

Bug #388623 reported by Michael Biebl on 2009-06-17

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	packagekit (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	James Westby

Bug Description

If dbus is not running (e.g. in my karmic chroot environment), I get this nasty error message on each apt operation:

# apt-get update
...
Failed to open connection to "system" message bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success '/usr/bin/dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.PackageKit --type=method_call /org/freedesktop/PackageKit org.freedesktop.PackageKit.StateHasChanged string:'cache-update''
E: Sub-process returned an error code

A simple fix is, to check if dbus is running in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20packagekit, before doing the dbus call

Trivial patch is attached

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lp:ubuntu/karmic/packagekit

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Michael Biebl (mbiebl) wrote on 2009-06-17:

dont_run_packagekit_update_when_dbus_not_running.patch Edit (657 bytes, text/plain)

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James Westby (james-w) wrote on 2009-07-07:

Hi,

Thanks for the patch, I'll try and include this in the next upload.

Thanks,

James

Changed in packagekit (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Triaged
assignee:	nobody → James Westby (james-w)

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Schmirrwurst (schmirrwurst) wrote on 2009-07-30:

I've got exact the same issue since todays update in karmic, but also on "normal" environment...

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Schmirrwurst (schmirrwurst) wrote on 2009-07-30: apport-collect data

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: binfmt_misc input_polldev joydev sbp2 lp parport pcmcia snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss uvcvideo snd_pcm compat_ioctl32 snd_timer tifm_7xx1 psmouse snd soundcore yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core videodev v4l1_compat tifm_core video intel_agp iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support serio_raw pcspkr sony_laptop snd_page_alloc nvidia output ohci1394 ieee1394 sky2 fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor
Package: packagekit 0.4.8-0ubuntu3 [modified: var/lib/PackageKit/transactions.db]
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-13.44-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic x86_64
UserGroups:

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Schmirrwurst (schmirrwurst) wrote on 2009-07-30:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.8 KiB, text/plain)

tags:

added: apport-collected

Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) on 2009-08-12

Changed in packagekit (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-08-25:

This bug was fixed in the package packagekit - 0.4.9+20090825-0ubuntu1

---------------
packagekit (0.4.9+20090825-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream snapshot provding a lot of APT backend improvements:
    - Allow to install updates which require the installation of additional
      packages. Updates depending on the removal of a package are still
      blocked (LP: #342671, LP: #374011, LP: #374011)
    - Warn about the installation of untrusted package (LP: #256245)
    - Don't crash in APT post update hook if system D-Bus daemon isn't
      running (LP: #388623)
    - Don't try to estimate a download progress during cache updating, since
      APT reports only a forth- and backwards running progress. (LP: #348053)
    - Support for python-apt 0.7.12 (LP: #415993)
    - Translated package descriptions
  * debian/patches:
    - Remove ignore_packages_in_conffile (Merged upstream)
    - Remove fix_typo (Merged upstream)
    - Add fix_unicode: Handle the encoding messages via stdin/stdout correctly
      (LP: #396513)
    - Add fix_unicode_debfile: Convert the path of the local file which
      should be installed to the correct encoding (LP: #347327)
  * debian/libpackagekit-qt-dev.install: Fix install location of CMake module.
    Thanks to Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik (LP: #345706)
  * debian/control: Fix spelling of Qt. Thanks to Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik
    (LP: #378419)