Software Updater freezes for a while if there are many updates available
Bug #1137996 reported by
Michael Terry
This bug affects 2 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
If there are a lot of updates available, Software Updater in raring will "freeze" for a while before showing the update list.
By freeze, I mean the window goes dark. The GTK event loop isn't given control while update-manager is thinking about the update list.
The original source of the problem is that update-manager has a naive recursive calculation of updates. It probably needs to implement a better algorithm. But regardless of the algorithm, it could stand to be responsive while it's thinking.
Related branches
lp:~mterry/update-manager/no-freeze
- Michael Vogt (community): Approve
| Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.184
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update-manager (1:0.184) raring; urgency=low
[ Michael Terry ]
* Don't temporarily freeze when calculating which updates are available.
LP: #1137996
[ Colin Watson ]
* Allow removals with only Conflicts+Replaces; while policy 7.6.2 quotes
Provides in an example, it's clear that Conflicts+Replaces alone should
be sufficient to indicate that the target package may be removed.
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:36:41 +0000