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update-notifier-kde package

Jaunty Kubuntu bad handling of apt-file notification (konsole -e konsole loop)

Bug #323459 reported by Chris Bainbridge
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-notifier-kde (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Harald Sitter

Bug Description

Testing with Kubuntu Jaunty with updates as of today.

Install apt-file. Reboot.
After logging in get notification:

"apt-file update needed
You may need to update or create the apt-file cache. Running this command likely needs an active internet connection."

Clicking "Run this action now" pops open a window which quickly closes. Notification window is still present.
*** Potential problem 1 - poor error handling - the executed window failed but notification window did nothing.

From ps the executed command is:

/usr/bin/konsole -e konsole -e konsole -e konsole -e konsole -e konsole -e konsole -e konsole -e konsole -e konsole -e konsole -e konsole -e konsole -e konsole -e konsole -e konsole -e konsole -e konsole -e konsole -e /usr/sbin/su-to-root -c /usr/share/apt-file/do-apt-file-update

There is a warning printed:
konsole(4525): Attempt to use QAction "change-profile" with KXMLGUIFactory!
*** Potential problem 2 - what is this QAction?

But the obvious problem is the repeated -e konsole calls, probably from some recursive string expansion. Remove them all and the actual su-to-root command works.

Revision history for this message
Calvin Mitchell (calvin674) wrote :

KDE 4.2, Kubuntu 8.10

when i ran the command:

sudo /usr/sbin/su-to-root -c /usr/share/apt-file/do-apt-file-update

I got the following results:

Can't get http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/Contents-amd64.gz
Can't get http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/Contents-amd64.gz

...my Internet connection is fine.

Harald Sitter (apachelogger)
Changed in update-notifier-kde (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Harald Sitter (apachelogger)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Harald Sitter (apachelogger)
Changed in update-notifier-kde (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package update-notifier-kde - 9.10ubuntu1

---------------
update-notifier-kde (9.10ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Florian Reinhard ]
  * Respect kdesudo's exit code. Prevents tray icon from disappearing even
    though package installation failed for whatever reason.

  [ Harald Sitter ]
  * Bump standards version to 3.8.3
  * Add missing depends on install-package
  * Change codecTray icon form system-run to download which is much more
    suitable. This is an intermediate workaround until we can get rid of the
    tray (as seen for update notification in Kpk) (LP: #396255)
  * Invoke terminal commands using KToolInvocation rather than KProcess, regular
    cdms still get started via KProcess since we cannot use KTI for that.
    (LP: #323459)
  * Make the reboot action not act upon touches of /var/lib/update-notifier but
    once /var/lib/update-notifier/dpkg-run-stamp is touched to prevent the
    reboot icon from appearing before update is done. As suggested by Michael
    Vogt (LP: #274001)
  * Add misc:Depends for debhelper
  * Add python dependency for lintian
  * Kill original maintainer field, does not exist for native packages
  * Change maintainer from Ubuntu core dev to Kubuntu developers
  * Revise version scheme to $SERIESubuntuX (works with dch and prevents lintian
    from thinking this is a NMU)

 -- Harald Sitter <email address hidden> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:35:53 +0200

Changed in update-notifier-kde (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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