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software-center package

Ubuntu software center reports crash when trying to install 20+ apps at once

Bug #454093 reported by hackerman on 2009-10-17

This bug affects 7 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
aptdaemon (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
Karmic	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
dbus (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
Karmic	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
software-center (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
Karmic	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: software-center

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 17 09:50:17 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: software-center 1.0
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with DBusException in call_blocking()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-settings-daemon:1705): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
(gnome-settings-daemon:1705): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1809): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
(nautilus:1801): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
(gnome-panel:1800): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height 24

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lp:ubuntu/lucid/dbus

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hackerman (hackerman) wrote on 2009-10-17:

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (44.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (765 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Traceback.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2009-10-17

tags:

removed: need-duplicate-check

Connor Imes (ckimes) on 2009-10-17

visibility:

private → public

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2009-10-20:

The error is:

DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: Connection ":1.71" is not allowed to add more match rules (increase limits in configuration file if required)

A fix is to increase the number of allowed match rules to something like in in system.conf
<limit name="max_match_rules_per_connection">5000</limit>

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cj100570 (cj100570) wrote on 2009-10-23:

why the Ubuntu team felt the need to screw up something that worked perfectly fine is beyond me. i went from being able to simply being able check off the programs i want to having to click and then choose install for each and ever program. just plain stupid!

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote on 2009-10-23:

@cj100570: If you want people listen to you, you should not insult them.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2009-10-23:

proposed fix Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-10-24:

This bug was fixed in the package dbus - 1.2.16-0ubuntu9

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dbus (1.2.16-0ubuntu9) karmic; urgency=low

  * 20_system_conf_limit.patch:
    - increase max_match_rules_per_connection for the system
      bus to 5000 (LP: #454093)

-- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:10:26 +0200

Changed in dbus (Ubuntu Karmic):
status:	New → Fix Released

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2009-10-24:

Michael, should the aptdaemon/software-center tasks here be closed as invalid?

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2009-10-24:

@Steve I closed the tasks now, it would be nice to work on aptdaemon a bit more so that its more efficient when it comes to the signal usage, but that is not karmic material :)