[Bug 939454] New: Apper hangs when attempting to update a component used by another process
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939454 Bug ID: 939454 Summary: Apper hangs when attempting to update a component used by another process Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: 13.2 Hardware: x86-64 OS: openSUSE 13.2 Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: Maintenance Assignee: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: olafmartens@web.de QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0 Build Identifier: When attempting to do an update packages with Apper it may occasionally hang. Especially flash-player is notorious for this when a browser is using the plugin, which is especially true under KDE, because it loads Konqueror upon startup - and that one locks flash-player, thereby causing Apper (to be more precise: packagekitd) to hang. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Invoke Apper when updates are available. 2. Click on "Install". Attention: flash-player MUST be among the packages to be updated for packagekitd to hang in the process! Actual Results: Apper displays "Waiting on other processes", but nothing happens, no matter how long you wait. Tested on two machines, one with local login, the other (a VM) via XDMCP, with both displaying identical behavior. Expected Results: The update should proceed normally, no matter which packages are to be updated in the process. This problem may be worked around as follows: 1. Open a root console. 2. killall -HUP packagekitd 3. zypper update Answer the question about whether to shut down packagekitd with "yes". Everything is updated normally. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Wolfgang Bauer
When attempting to do an update packages with Apper it may occasionally hang. Especially flash-player is notorious for this when a browser is using the plugin, which is especially true under KDE, because it loads Konqueror upon startup - and that one locks flash-player, thereby causing Apper (to be more precise: packagekitd) to hang.
No, you're misinterpreting the problem. It doesn't matter whether a component is in use by another process. Otherwise this would also happen for every KDE update when running KDE, which it doesn't... Rather, packagekitd hangs whenever there is a license agreement necessary, which is the case with flash-player in particular.
Apper displays "Waiting on other processes", but nothing happens, no matter how long you wait.
That's not completely true either. Any interaction with packagekitd will "wake it up", and it will continue to install the selected updates. So other workarounds include: - right-click on KDE's update icon and choose "Check for new updates" (there won't be any progress report in the applet in this case, but the updates will be installed) - start Apper and check for updates - run "pkcon get-updates" in a terminal And it will also continue when Apper automatically checks for updates the next time. So set the check interval to "hourly" and you'll wait one hour at most... ;) Anyway, this problem has been reported already, marking as duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 908730 *** -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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