Ubuntu
gnome-app-install package

Add/Remove... closed unexpectedly

Bug #82722 reported by Stephen Drake on 2007-02-01

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #80589: daily live comes with crash report - pre-populated!. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-app-install (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I boot the feisty-desktop-i386.iso cd release version 20070201.2 and once GNOME has loaded I see a crash report in the notification panel. It says "A application has crashed on your system (now or in the past). Click on the notification..."

When I click on it the dialog windows says:

"Sorry Add/Remove... closed unexpectedly"

I checked the syslog and messages, but there were no obvious errors. This also occurred while I was testing yesterday's daily image (20070131) in vmware.

This happens again after I have installed to disk the first time I boot, but on subsequent boots it has disappeared.

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Stephen Drake (spd106) wrote on 2007-02-01:

syslog file Edit (31.7 KiB, text/plain)

syslog included

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Jonh Wendell (wendell) wrote on 2007-02-01:

Thanks for the report.

Please, upgrade your system and run the following command in a terminal:

gnome-app-install

Paste the error messages here, please.

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Stephen Drake (spd106) wrote on 2007-02-01:

There were no updates available.

Here's the error message you requested.

$ gnome-app-install

** (gnome-app-install:7901): WARNING **: return value of custom widget handler was not a GtkWidget
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/AppInstall/AppInstall.py:1445: GtkWarning: gtk_tree_model_sort_sort: assertion `tree_model_sort->default_sort_func != NULL' failed
item.applications.set_default_sort_func(None)

This also occurs after an install of the feisty-alternate-i386.iso image version 20070201.1

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Jonh Wendell (wendell) wrote on 2007-02-02:

Well, i have the same messages here, but they are only warnings, gnome-app-install opens normally.

Are you sure it's not opening?

Please, run in a terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Try again and, if it still closes, paste here the result of command:

apt-cache policy gnome-app-install

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Stephen Drake (spd106) wrote on 2007-02-02:

Sorry I seem to have misled you.

The app opens and runs fine. I just wanted to report the warning. It seemed like the sort of thing that shouldn't be happening. Particularly as it's not the kind of app I would expect to be running on start-up. Perhaps there is a file in the image that's reporting a previous crash. I honestly don't know, I'm just reporting what I see.

It only seems to do this the first time I boot and installed system. But it happens every time I boot a live cd.

I seemed to have opened this bug in the ubuntu-iso-tests, that was a mistake. Can it be changed or does a new bug have to be filed?