[Bug 452361] [NEW] Hide button kills update process if feedback is required?

[Reiger]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: kpackagekit


Clicking the <Hide> button in the process-monitor dialog of updates which involve external dependencies (and therefore need additional approva *after* apply has been selected, at some point after the resolving-dependencies phase) may abort the application: at any rate the application «vanishes». (And I do not mean that the application vanishes to the tray: it is a proverbial «poof» and does not even register with automated app-crash handlers.)

The problem only occurs if you click <Hide> *before* the update process
has asked about confirmation for bringing in external dependencies (e.g.
upgrading the kernel may involve additionally installing kernel
headers): if you click <Hide> *before* the updater has asked you
kpackagekit will cop out and vanish completely.

If you wait until the updater has asked you, and click <Hide> afterwards
then there is no problem.

The real problem is that it is not alway possible to know when -and
certainly much less so expected that- there will be additional
dependencies. E.g. people entirely new to the tool may not know that it
expects you to wait until it has verified there are no additional
dependencies to be installed; and people used to aptitude/apt may epxect
that these dependencies have been taken into account during the initial
update ‘proposal’.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 15 19:13:00 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: kpackagekit 0.4.2-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: kpackagekit
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

** Affects: kpackagekit (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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Hide button kills update process if feedback is required?
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