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software-center crashed with DBusException in _convert_dbus_exception(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "GetAll" with signature "s" on interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" doesn't exist

Bug #812023 reported by LinuxLexOS
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This bug affects 74 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
aptdaemon (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Michael Vogt
Oneiric
Fix Released
High
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

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ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 4.1.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-5.6-generic 3.0.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jul 17 23:26:13 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110705.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center /home/User Name/Plocha/google-chrome-beta_current_i386.deb
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center', '/home/User Name/Plocha/google-chrome-beta_current_i386.deb']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with DBusException in _convert_dbus_exception(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "GetAll" with signature "s" on interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" doesn't exist
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-17 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

Related branches

lp:~aptdaemon-developers/aptdaemon/non-blocking-lintian
Aptdaemon Developers: Pending requested
Diff: 69 lines (+19/-22)
2 files modified
aptdaemon/worker.py (+17/-21)
tests/test_worker.py (+2/-1)
lp:~aptdaemon-developers/aptdaemon/ubuntu-oneiric
lp:ubuntu/oneiric/aptdaemon
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LinuxLexOS (oslinuxlex) wrote :
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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote : Bug is not a security issue

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

security vulnerability: yes → no
visibility: private → public
Launchpad Janitor (janitor)
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Robert Roth (evfool)
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

setting importance to high due to the number of duplicates.

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → High
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)
affects: software-center (Ubuntu) → aptdaemon (Ubuntu)
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)
Changed in aptdaemon (Ubuntu Oneiric):
assignee: nobody → Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations)
Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Changed in aptdaemon (Ubuntu Oneiric):
assignee: Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) → Michael Vogt (mvo)
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : This bug is a duplicate

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #804444, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
Kate Stewart (kate.stewart)
tags: added: rls-mgr-o-tracking
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

This will no longer raise a exception, its however not fully fixed as it seems like aptd is blocking while this happens.

Changed in aptdaemon (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote :

Aptdaemon is blocking on the lintian calls. Mvo could you please verify if you still get the problems with the attached branch?

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Martin Brunt (martin-brunt) wrote : Re: [Bug 812023] Re: software-center crashed with DBusException in _convert_dbus_exception(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "GetAll" with signature "s" on interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" doesn't exist

On 18/09/11 07:29, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> Aptdaemon is blocking on the lintian calls. Mvo could you please verify
> if you still get the problems with the attached branch?
>
>
> ** Branch linked: lp:~aptdaemon-developers/aptdaemon/non-blocking-lintian
>
 Thank you, everything working fine now.
Brilliant system, have been running 11.04 on my main quad core, upgraded
from 10.04. Running 11.04 on my net book. Now running 11.10 0n my
laptop, finally got rid of Windows 7. Until now laptop would only run
ubuntu on pen drive linux ubuntu 10.04. I could not get wireless to work
on 10.10 or 11.04. Works great on 11.10 until I install hardware
drivers. Then wireless stops working, weird.

Anyway thanks for a great system.

Martin Brunt

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package aptdaemon - 0.43+bzr697

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aptdaemon (0.43+bzr697) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New bzr bugfix version:
    - Don't block on lintian calls to avoid time outs on the DBus
      by making use of the excellent preexec_fn of subprocess
      (LP: #812023)
    - pyflakes based import fixes, this fixes a unneeded glib import
      that can cause crashes with gtk2/gtk3 (pygtk/pygi)
    - use the deprecated message attribute to avoid encoding errors
      (LP: #846044)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:01:15 +0200

Changed in aptdaemon (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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