Bug 389361

Summary:	Synaptic crashes when attempting to set preferences
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tom <tomg68>
Component:	synaptic	Assignee:	Axel Thimm <axel.thimm>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	8	CC:	pmatilai
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	0.5.15lorg3.93-4.fc8	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2007-12-06 20:51:29 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Tom 2007-11-18 14:24:36 UTC

Description of problem:
Synaptic crashes when attempting to set preferences

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.57.2-13.fc8

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Execute Synaptic
2. Click Settings->Preferences
3.
  
Actual results: Crash followed by:
synaptic: rpm/rpmindexfile.cc:639: std::string
rpmRepomdIndex::IndexURI(std::string) const: Assertion `Res.size() > 0' failed.

Expected results:
Preferences dialog displayed

Additional info:

Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2007-11-19 07:19:46 UTC

Yeah, easily reproduced, repomd support in apt acting up in some cases where
repomd.xml isn't available locally.

Fixed in rawhide now, F8 update to follow...

Comment 2 Tom 2007-11-19 14:17:17 UTC

kudos

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2007-11-22 03:30:59 UTC

apt-0.5.15lorg3.93-4.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update apt'

Comment 4 Tom 2007-11-24 14:14:16 UTC

apt-0.5.15lorg3.93-4.fc8 seems to fix the preferences bug

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2007-12-06 20:51:27 UTC

apt-0.5.15lorg3.93-4.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.