[Bug 1689820] Re: /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd:11:pkgCache::Iterator:AcqPackageKitStatus::updateStatus:AcqPackageKitStatus::Fail:pkgAcquire::Worker::RunMessages:pkgAcquire::Worker::InFdReady

[Martin Pitt]

I ran the description's test case and confirm that the crash is now
fixed. Furthermore, other operations like "pkcon refresh", "pkcon get-
updates", "pkcon update", and "pkcon install bash-doc" all worked fine,
as before.

** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-xenial
** Tags added: verification-done-xenial

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Title:
  /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd:11:pkgCache::Iterator:AcqPackageKitStatus::updateStatus:AcqPackageKitStatus::Fail:pkgAcquire::Worker::RunMessages:pkgAcquire::Worker::InFdReady

Status in packagekit package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in packagekit source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding packagekit.  This problem was most recently seen with package version 0.8.17-4ubuntu6~gcc5.4ubuntu1.1, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/8c37a6988b890cc46b415972ef1e2ca746f9ffcc contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports.
  If you do not have access to the Ubuntu Error Tracker you can request it at http://forms.canonical.com/reports/.

  SRU INFORMATION
  ===============
   * Impact: PackageKit immediately crashes in GetUpdateDetail()

   * Test case:
     - Be on a system (container, VM, or real iron) with at least one upgradeable package. If you don't have one, downgrade tzdata:
        sudo apt-get install tzdata=2016j-0ubuntu0.16.04
     - Run "pkcon get-updates" to see upgradeable packages.
     - Run "pkcon get-update-detail tzdata" (or for a different package).
     - Current PackageKit immediately crashes (message from pkcon and systemctl status packagekit), with this fix it should survive and show some data (changelog doesn't work though).

   * Regression potential: Update details are currently completely
  broken, so very little to regress there. As for dropping the browser
  plugin package: The current package stopped working long ago with
  current firefox; however, the package from xenial-release will still
  be around. All in all this shouldn't change anything visible.

   * Upstream fix:
  https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/commit/18c56fa52 (only the
  acqpkitstatus.cpp bit)

   * Downstream packaging change to drop browser plugin:
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-
  packagekit/packagekit.git/commit/?id=b98a978322

  Test packages: http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/packagekit-
  updatedetail-crash/

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