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software-center package

software-center crashed with DatabaseError in _database_gen_postlist_iter()

Bug #438639 reported by João Pinto
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
software-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: software-center

This happened during the Rebuilding database... after upgrading to the latest package version: 0.4.3

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 29 11:14:24 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: software-center 0.4.3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_PT.utf8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=pt_PT.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with DatabaseError in _database_gen_postlist_iter()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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João Pinto (joaopinto) wrote :
João Pinto (joaopinto)
visibility: private → public
Apport retracing service (apport)
tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

I tried to reproduce this in various way but I was not successful. Has this ever appeared again? Did:
$ sudo update-software-center
trigger the crash (maybe running it multiple times)?

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João Pinto (joaopinto) wrote :

Hello,
I didn't launched anything from the terminal.
I am not able to reproduce the problem, if no one reports is better close it.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

I can imagine there is a race condition somewhere when the db is rebuild, I just haven't figured a way to reproduce it. I will leave it open and add some defensive code.

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

I added some code that (hopefully - i can not reproduce it myself, but that is not unusual for a race-condition) fixes the issue.

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package software-center - 0.4.6

---------------
software-center (0.4.6) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - add versionized dependency to aptdaemon (needs some of the
      latest API for the async calls) LP: #444218
  * softwarecenter/view/pendingview.py:
    - display the operation (Install Packages, Remove Packages,
      Applying Changes) for operations that come from outside
      software-center (LP: #444254)
  * softwarecenter/app.py:
    - do not crah on corrupted database
  * utils/update-software-center:
    - ignore if dbus can not be imported (e.g. because we are in
      the middle of a upgrade and python packages are unavailable)
      LP: #443177)
    - do not show full stacktrace if dbus is not available
      (LP: #444089)
    - add a small delay between dubs rebuild signal and actual rebuild
      (LP: #438639)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:27:09 +0200

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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